With Ames and Baron, Le Blanc opposes freedom to every necessity properly so called
So, with Ames and Robert Baron, we are not afraid to say that the freedom of human choice is opposed to every necessity in the proper sense. Strictly and properly speaking, no human act is free unless we grant that man has a real, inward power to act otherwise, or at least to hold back his act and stop acting.
By necessity in the proper sense we mean what fixes the agent on a given action in such a way that no real, inward power remains in him not to act or to act otherwise.
Latin
XXVII. Itaque cum Amesio & Roberto Baronio dicere non veremur humani arbitrii libertatem opponi necessitati cuivis proprie dictae, nec ullum hominis actum, si stricte & proprie loquamur liberum esse, nisi ponamus in homine veram & intrinsecam potestatem aliter agendi, aut saltem actum suum suspendendi, & ab actione cessandi. Per necessitatem enim proprie dictam intelligimus illam, quae ad certam actionem sic agens determinat, ut in eo non maneat vera & intrinseca potestas non agendi, aut aliter agendi.