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    A choice can be both fully informed and freely irrational... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A freely chosen eternal destiny apart from God is metaphysically impossible.

    A choice can be both fully informed and freely irrational, as Aristotle's account of akrasia demonstrates: agents knowingly choose against their recognized good.

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    • 1.Akrasia occurs when desire overwhelms judgment: an agent knows X is good but desire for Y moves them to choose Y anyway.
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    • 2.Knowledge and motivation are distinct capacities; possessing knowledge doesn't entail it controls behavior in real-time.
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    • 3.Empirical psychology confirms humans act against recognized interests when emotions, impulses, or competing values intervene.
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    • 1.If an agent truly knows X is their good, they cannot rationally prefer Y; choosing Y implies tacit reevaluation of goods.
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    • 2.Calling irrational choices 'fully informed' conflates propositional knowledge with practical wisdom (phronesis) actually guiding action.
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    • 3.Without rationality constraints on choice, 'informed' becomes descriptively empty: any choice by a thinking agent counts as informed.
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