Station: S. Maria in Via Lata
Quote from J. B. Korelec's article "Free Will and Free Choice" in The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy:
Attempts to re-establish the supremacy of reason
In Oxford as in Paris Aquinas found defenders. Thomas Sutton and Nicholas Trivet took his side in the debate about the superiority of the intellect over the will. Sutton maintained that the will is passive with respect to the object of its desire, but free in its choice of means to achieve its object. But even in this choice of means it is dependent on the judgements of reason. Trivet, likewise, maintains that both will and reason are free, though each in a different way. The dependence of will on reason does not conflict with its freedom, which is freedom of choice of means in the endeavour to achieve the aim presented by reason. Unlike Jean Quidort, these Oxford masters do not defend Thomas outright: they make smaller or larger concessions to Tempier's condemnations.
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