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For the intellectually adventuresome, St. Thomas Aquinas defends the reality of human freedom in four major texts. See especially:

• Disputed Questions on Evil, qu. 6 ("Whether man has free choice of his acts or chooses of necessity");
• Disputed Questions on Truth, qu. 24, art. 1 ("Is man endowed with free choice?");
• Summa of Theology, First Part, qu. 83, art. 1 ("Whether man has free will?"); and
• Summa of Theology, First Part of the Second Part, qu. 13, art. 6 ("Whether man chooses of necessity, or freely?").