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Aquinas and Human Action Following are some notes from this two-part talk (all quoted items are paraphrases, hopefully reasonably accurate): It is taken for granted that human agents have free will or free agency – we have the experience, day to day, of being confronted with options and being able to opt between such options.  This offers a truncated picture, a picture of lower appetites. This is David Hume’s “reason,” when he wrote: “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of th...