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    It is not the case that Divine perfection may not require moral goodness of the kind that requires libertarian freedom.

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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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    • 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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