Some recent Thomists make indifference a property of freedom, its essence independence and dominion
Some recent Thomists, however, note that indifference toward acting or not acting is a property of human freedom that cannot be separated from it, but that the essence of freedom does not lie there.
They place it rather in independence and in standing above finite goods, together with the power of governing, or in a kind of dominion by which the free agent directs itself and all that is its own to the last end.
This can be seen in the recent Dominican writer Vincent Baron, in the third part of his dogmatic theology, on the principles of human freedom and of God's knowledge, written against the Jesuit Théophile Raynaud (disputation 1, article 3, §1).
Yet by the more common positions of today's school, the very essence of freedom is to be placed in this indifference toward acting or not acting.
Latin
XLII. Observant tamen nonnulli Thomistae recentiores indifferentiam ad agendum, vel non agendum, esse quidem libertatis humanae proprietatem, quae ab illa separari nequit; verum in ea libertatis essentiam non consistere; sed potius in independentia, & eminentia supra bona finita, & vi illa regendi; sive in dominio quodam, quo se suaque ad ultimum finem referat. Ut videre est apud nuperum scriptorem Vincentium Baronium Dominicanum in tertia parte Theologiae dogmaticae; de Libertatis humanae & scientiae Dei principiis adversus Theophilum Raynaudum Jesuitam. Disp. 1. Artic. 3. §. 1. Sed juxta communiora hodiernae Scholae placita, ipsa libertatis essentia constituenda est in ista ad agendum, vel non agendum indifferentia.