 The scholastics all agreed that the human will is free. They also agreed that the will and the intellect both played a role in the genesis of the voluntary act. What they disagreed about was which of the two faculties had the decisive role. For Henry of Ghent, the will was the sole cause of its free acts (Quodl. I, q. 17), so much so that he tended to relegate the intellect’s role to that of a “sine qua non” cause. At the other end of the spectrum of opinions, Godfrey of Fontaines held that the will is always passive in regard to the intellect and that it is the intellect that exercises the decisive motion in producing the voluntary act (Quodl. III, q. 16). Although James of Viterbo used language apt to suggest that he wanted to steer a middle course between Henry and Godfrey (Quodl. II, q. 7), his preferences clearly lay with a position like that of Henry’s, as can be gathered from his most detailed treatment of the question in Quodl. I, q. 7 (see Dumont 2018a for a complete treatment of the issue in James).