In his marginal notes on Peter Lombard (written 1509) Luther had rightly said: “Liberum arbitrium damnatur quia .
Liberum arbitrium indifferentiae under the name of moral freedom is a charming doll for professors of philosophy to dandle; and we must leave it to those intelligent, honourable and upright gentlemen.
The liberum arbitrium indifferentiæ which is assumed to be the distinctive characteristic of movements proceeding from the will, is accordingly quite inadmissible: for it asserts that effects are possible without causes.
Here used in the absolute sense of liberum arbitrium indifferentiæ.
We really have no authority to which we can confidently appeal, except the usage of good society: "Quem penes arbitrium est, et jus et norma loquendi.
The doctrine of the sinfulness of the works performed by the natural man, which he had held even previously, he now supplements by an addition, in the nature of a challenge: “Liberum arbitrium post peccatum res est de solo titulo.
This was only possible under the fiction of a liberum arbitrium indifferentiae, and only necessary on account of the Jewish fundamental dogma, in which that doctrine had here to be implanted.
A will is purely animal (arbitrium brutum) when it is determined by sensuous impulses or instincts only, that is, when it is determined in a pathological manner.
For this reason some of the ancient Fathers have said that free will in man is the faculty to apply himself to grace (liberum arbitrium in homine facultatem esse applicandi se ad gratiam); i.
He seriously puts forward the liberum arbitrium indifferentiae (a free and indifferent choice), giving as its foundation the most trivial and frivolous reasons.
Accordingly the dispute as to the freedom of the particular action, the liberum arbitrium indifferentiae, really turns on the question whether the will lies in time or not.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arbitrium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
