Swerve and Detachment

With only a few, recent, exceptions, Philosophers have long privileged Theory over Practice, entailing, either explicitly or implicitly, that Contemplation is the Highest Good. Now, Contemplation requires detachment from its objects.  Accordingly, inherent in this tradition is the privileging of a concept of Free Will that accomplishes a liberation from both pursuit and avoidance of external objects.  So, in other words, also among the reasons for the obscurity of Swerve is that the concept of Free Will that is based on it has been long overshadowed by one the image of which is a line coming to a halt.  Indeed, even both Epicurus and Lucretius recognize a moment of hesitation before their line veers off its original course.  Likewise, 'will power' commonly connotes resistance to an external influence, i. e. self-restraint, not a sudden change of behavior.