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    Divine perfection may not require moral goodness of the k... — Carmelics
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    Divine perfection may not require moral goodness of the kind that requires libertarian freedom.

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    • 1.Moral goodness in the human case requires libertarian freedom.
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    • 2.Special features of the divine case may make that sort of freedom unnecessary for moral goodness.
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    • 3.Alternatively, the perfection of God's agency need not be understood as moral perfection.
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    • 1.Moral goodness is constitutively linked to the genuine possibility of acting otherwise, as Kant and Frankfurt's own critics argue.
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    • 2.A being whose nature necessitates good action lacks the normative self-governance that grounds attributions of moral worth.
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    • 3.If God cannot do evil by metaphysical necessity, divine 'goodness' names a natural property, not a moral achievement, undermining worship-worthiness.
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    • 1.Anselm's own modal ontology requires that the greatest conceivable being possess every perfection to the highest degree, including moral perfection.
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    • 2.Moral perfection, on broadly Anselmian grounds, must exceed merely natural or dispositional goodness, requiring robust agential freedom to count as perfection at all.
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    Moral goodness in the human case requires libertarian freedom.86%Divine freedom and divine perfect moral goodness cannot be co-realized...85%Alternatively, the perfection of God's agency need not be understood a...78%The kind of freedom necessary for moral responsibility is incompatible...76%

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    If one insists upon a libertarian account of free will in which to be free with respect to an action requires the possibility of acting otherwise, then the connection between freedom and moral assessability entails that God’s lack of freedom to do evil precludes God’s being perfectly morally good. It is unclear how damaging that outcome would be. If one is convinced that moral goodness is a great-making feature that God must exhibit, then there is a deep problem for perfect being theology, as it
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    Special features of the divine case may make that sort of freedom unnecessary fo...
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