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    Challenges→It is impossible even for an omnipotent being to make it the case that someone freely chooses to do what is right.

    Compatibilist free will, defended by Hume, Frankfurt, and Dennett, holds that freedom requires acting from one's own desires without external compulsion, not the absence of causal determination.

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    Causal determination(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of time)
    The idea that earlier events force later events to happen in a fixed, unavoidable way—like dominoes falling in a predetermined sequence.
    Daniel Dennett(The statement references his specific philosophical framework)
    A contemporary American philosopher famous for arguing that consciousness and the mind can be fully explained by physical processes in the brain, without needing any mysterious or special mental properties.
    David Hume(as referenced in the statement)
    An 18th-century Scottish philosopher who argued that our desires and emotions, not reason alone, drive our actions and decisions.
    External compulsion(as used in philosophy of action)
    A force or pressure from outside that forces someone to act against their will, leaving them no real choice.

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    Harry Frankfurt(as a modern philosopher referenced in debates about God's power)
    A 20th-century American philosopher who wrote about the nature of God's omnipotence and whether an all-powerful being can be limited by its own nature.
    compatibilism(Offered as a response to the traditional problem of free will)
    The philosophical position that free will and moral responsibility are compatible with determinism being true
    free will(Kant's practical resolution of the third antinomy)
    An exemption from the laws of nature; the power of doing and forbearing

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