Baruch Spinoza — "I call a thing free which exists and acts by the sole necessity of its own natur…"

I call a thing free which exists and acts by the sole necessity of its own nature; and I call that compelled which is determined by something else to exist and act in a fixed and determinate manner.
Baruch Spinoza — Baruch Spinoza Early Modern · Rationalist philosophy

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Ethica, Part I, Definition VII

Date: 1677

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