spontaneum

Updated: May 20, 2025

'Spontaneum est, cujus principium est in agente. Thus it is that our actions and our wills depend entirely upon us. It is true that we are not directly the masters of our will, although we be its cause; for we do not choose volitions, as we choose our actions by our volitions.

Freiherr von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil