Moral freedom, she will argue, is not the ability to choose your own moral principles in an otherwise valueless world. True moral freedom is the ability to look steadily at reality and to see things justly. To see what matters, what things are important and good. To look again and to rethink the past. This work of looking does not involve sudden movements of the will at isolated moments of choice but is a continuous task. And as Donald MacKinnon had seen, it requires humility and purity of heart.
