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    Compatibilist freedom, defended by Leibniz and Edwards, h... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The standard free will defense is not available to the theological determinist.

    Compatibilist freedom, defended by Leibniz and Edwards, holds that acts caused by God-ordained natures can still be genuinely free.

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    • 1.Freedom requires only absence of external coercion, not absence of causal determination by one's own nature.
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    • 2.An act flowing from one's genuine desires, character, and reasoning is free even if those traits were divinely ordained.
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    • 3.Incompatibilism's requirement that free acts be uncaused leads to randomness, which undermines rather than secures freedom.
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    • 1.If God ordained your nature completely, you could not have done otherwise—the core condition compatibilists struggle to satisfy.
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    • 2.Identifying freedom with 'acting from your desires' begs the question when those desires themselves were divinely determined.
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    • 3.Compatibilism redefines 'freedom' to match determinism rather than preserving the intuitive concept requiring genuine alternatives.
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    If God ordained your nature completely, you could not have done otherwise—the co...Incompatibilism's requirement that free acts be uncaused leads to randomness, wh...The standard free will defense is not available to the theological determinist.

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