Anselm, On Freedom of Choice | Willing To Abandon Rectitude of Will | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Anselm's dialogue, On Freedom of Choice (the second work in a trilogy including On Truth and On The Fall of the Devil). It examines his discussion of how a person who possesses rectitude or rightness of will (rectitudo voluntatis) can abandon that rectitude. According to Anselm, a person cannot be forced to do so, although they can be placed in a situation of forced choice or difficulty, and then willingly abandon that rectitude by choosing something else instead of it

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