 But Windelband still needs to explain how it is possible that we can be aware of a moral norm and not act on it. Long passages in the 1904 lectures are devoted to developing the thought that what determines our moral decisions and actions, and hence decisions if and when we act in accordance with the moral law is our “personality”. Windelband approaches this as a theoretical, not as a normative, question and concludes that we may well call those decisions and actions “free” that are predominantly determined by our constant personality, as opposed to being determined by external circumstances or contingent affects. Freedom is “the unhindered causality of a pre-existing willing” (1904b: 106).