Another work that is more formal is Maximus’s Ambigua, written largely in response to Origen’s Neoplatonism. Origen was rather fixated on the idea of either pre

Another work that is more formal is Maximus’s Ambigua, written largely in response to Origen’s Neoplatonism. Origen was rather fixated on the idea of either precarnate good vs. fallen flesh (those are your two options, another version of Gnosticism basically). Maximus offers the solution of transcending simple dialectics because free will allows one to choose from more than one good. In general, discomfort with ambiguity and free will reveals a lot about a person, society, organization, etc.