Dr. Pakaluk discusses Susan Sauvé Meyer's "Aristotle on the Voluntary" in
Aristotle on the Voluntary
Voluntary Everywhere if Anywhere
Distinctively Human Agency
Freedom to Do Otherwise
I think the last one in particular is enough to show that even for Aristotle, only freedom of contrariety is needed in order for one to be reckoned free, freedom of specification is not necessary. (This comes up in such questions as whether the Blessed Mother was free to say "Non" instead of "Fiat," with the implication that she was not free if she could not say "Non.")
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