free will

vapaa tahto, tahdonvapaus A person's natural inclination; unforced choice.
(RQ:Flr Mntgn Essay), II.12:

I say therefore, there is no likelyhood, we should imagine, the beasts doe the very same things by a naturall inclination and forced genuitie, which we doe of our owne freewil and industrie.

Good my Lord, / To come thus was I not constrain'd, but did it / On my free-will.

I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.

I am impelled to this course by no one, but follow it of my own free-will.

What is free will but the power of volition and action, and of thought and speech, to all appearance as of one's self?

The new challenge to free will comes from a different direction: neuroscience's discovery that people's brains are a collection of diversely oriented modules, and that our understanding of our own intentionality is to a great degree a legitimating fiction which one module in the left hemisphere of the brain retroactively imposes over the decisions different modules make.