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For Aquinas, reason and will construct the world of human soul through a reciprocal relationship conditioned by the dialogue of knowledge and choice. Reason offers the will knowledge for its choice, while the will determines the movement of reason in a given context of deciding acts. Here the former causes the problem of intellectual determinism, and the latter that of voluntary relativism. But Aquinas solves these problems by arguing that the will at the same time accepts the knowledge of reason and creates the act of free choice unconditioned by it. He makes this solution possible in terms of counsel that involves both rational knowing and choosing. Counsel not only addresses the knowledge and judgment of reason, but also reconstructs them in the will's free act of choice, and thus completes the connection of reason and will. Importantly this is based upon the divine grace that gives reason the power of knowing syntheresis and offers the will the capability of free choice, and thereby represents the responsible human subjectivity for acts and the human's absolute dependence upon God the ultimate cause and end of all living realities.
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Reason, Will, Thomas Aquinas
