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    It is not the case that A decision that bypasses the ordeal of undecidability is not a free decision

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    • 1.Frankfurt's hierarchical compatibilism shows freedom consists in acting from endorsed second-order volitions, not in confronting undecidability.
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    • 2.An agent who reflectively identifies with a decision-procedure and acts from it exercises genuine autonomy without requiring experiential paralysis.
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    • 3.Requiring 'ordeal' as a condition of freedom conflates phenomenological difficulty with the metaphysical conditions for free agency.
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    • 1.Aristotle's account in Nicomachean Ethics grounds virtuous decision in stable hexis, where the excellent agent reliably chooses well without deliberative anguish.
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    • 2.If undecidability were necessary for freedom, the morally virtuous agent—who acts rightly with least hesitation—would paradoxically be least free.
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    • 1.A free decision requires experiencing that the singular case does not fit established codes and that a decision therefore seems impossible
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    • 2.A decision that does not pass through this ordeal is merely the programmable application of a calculable process
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    • 3.The programmable application of a calculable process is not freedom
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