The phrase "a free act" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing autonomy, choice, or actions taken without coercion.
Example: "In philosophy, a free act is often defined as one that is performed without external constraints or influences."
Alternatives: "an autonomous action" or "a voluntary act".
When I wrote The Name of the Rose it was half for fun – a free act.
Evidence so procured can no more be regarded as the product of a free act of the accused than that obtained by official physical or psychological coercion.
A hunger strike is a free act, and Wei starves himself to protest local conditions, and to grow ever more still as well.
They offered a free ACT prep class, which helped immensely, and they also took students on campus visits to various colleges around the area.
It treated the idea of religious pluralism with respect and declared that people accept faith as a free act and cannot be compelled to do so.
According to Sartre, our tendency to evasiveness is directed at freedom itself: bad faith is a refusal of freedom that is, nevertheless, a free act.
Posting your meals online – whether they are healthy, unhealthy or none of your goddamn business – can be a freeing act.
For example, if Oswald's assassination of President Kennedy was a genuinely free act then if, per impossibile, the clock could be turned back to the moments before the murder, Oswald could have decided not to pull the trigger.
So, on Clarke's libertarian view there is a profound difference between the sufficient reason for the balance moving in a particular way and the sufficient reason for an agent's free act.
New York's Freelance Isn't Free Act is a great step in that direction but more needs to be done.
At the Los Angeles Convention Center, another team was hoisting video screens and banners for an expo that will offer dozens of free acts, a sneaker convention, a celebrity basketball game, a dance competition, fitness classes, a beauty lounge.
