AI Overview In medieval scholasticism, the concept of "liberty of indifference" (liberum arbitrium indifferentiae) describes the will's capacity to choose between different, equally appealing alternatives, unconstrained by external causes or even the intellect . This idea was central to the voluntarist movement, which emphasized the will's power and independence, in contrast to the intellectualist view, which saw the will as determined by the intellect's judgment of the good. Voluntarists versus intellectualists This debate on the will's nature is a key feature of medieval thought, with two main schools of thought: Voluntarists : Figures like John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham championed the liberty of indifference. They argued that genuine freedom means the will has the inexplicable power to choose between opposing options, even against the strongest reasons presented by the intellect. This makes the will a self-determining power, or causa sui . Inte...