Is this a good understanding of free will?

[blase6]

A person has as part of its being both an intellect and will. The will is dependent upon the knowledge of the intellect. (This is why one cannot choose to leave God after beholding him in heaven, it contradicts one’s fullness of knowing God.) All choices of persons result from the individual phenomena of imperfect knowledge.

If God has created a world where indeterminate knowledge results randomly, then free will could exist, since the intellect is part of a person.

My explanation would reconcile free will with a deterministic/indeterministic world.

 

[davidv]

A person has as part of its being both an intellect and will. The will is dependent upon the knowledge of the intellect. (This is why one cannot choose to leave God after beholding him in heaven, it contradicts one’s fullness of knowing God.) All choices of persons result from the individual phenomena of imperfect knowledge.

If God has created a world where indeterminate knowledge results randomly, then free will could exist, since the intellect is part of a person.

My explanation would reconcile free will with a deterministic/indeterministic world.

Both the intellect and the will are aspects of the soul. In what way is the will dependent on the knowledge of the intellect?

What the will chooses is also dependent on the passions. When the will allows the passions to rule, is when we sin. We also sin when the will depends on an ill formed intellect. Knowledge is not the sole determiner of the wills decisions.

1711 Endowed with a spiritual soul, with intellect and with free will, the human person is from his very conception ordered to God and destined for eternal beatitude. He pursues his perfection in “seeking and loving what is true and good” (GS 15 § 2).

155 In faith, the human intellect and will cooperate with divine grace: "Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace."27

 

[blase6]

Both the intellect and the will are aspects of the soul. In what way is the will dependent on the knowledge of the intellect?

What the will chooses is also dependent on the passions. When the will allows the passions to rule, is when we sin. This results from one’s disposition to act against one’s feelings, which is “predeveloped” before a choice, and from one’s sufficient knowledge that acting against one’s passions is better. We also sin when the will depends on an ill formed intellect. If one does not know that they are doing wrong, they cannot be held responsible for an evil choice. Knowledge is not the sole determiner of the wills decisions.

 

[davidv]

This results from one’s disposition to act against one’s feelings, which is “predeveloped” before a choice, and from one’s sufficient knowledge that acting against one’s passions is better.

I believe this exactly opposite of what I meant. It is when we don’t act against our passion it is likely that we are sinning.

Would please use the quote function as it is designed so your comments are separate from mine.

 

[blase6]

I believe this exactly opposite of what I meant. It is when we don’t act against our passion it is likely that we are sinning.

Would please use the quote function as it is designed so your comments are separate from mine.

I understood what you meant. Acting on passion is not necessarily a sin, it just has to have a sinful action as an object.