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    Freedom may consist in the ability to follow one's own re... — Carmelics
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    Freedom may consist in the ability to follow one's own reasonable judgment concerning the best course of action in a given situation.

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    • 1.The relevant freedom requires a minimal degree of rationality.
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    • 2.If a relevant threshold of rationality requires only an ability to make reasonable judgments rather than infallible ones concerning the best course of action, then freedom can be understood as the ability to follow one's own reasonable judgment.
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    • 1.Frankfurt's hierarchical compatibilism shows freedom requires not just following reasonable judgment, but endorsing one's will at a higher-order level.
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    • 2.An agent can act on reasonable first-order judgments while failing to identify with those judgments, making such action unfree in the morally relevant sense.
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    • 3.Therefore, reasonable judgment-following is insufficient as a complete account of freedom because it neglects the reflective endorsement condition.
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    • 1.Kant's account of autonomy holds that genuine freedom consists in self-legislation according to universal rational principle, not mere pursuit of what seems best to the individual.
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    • 2.An agent's 'reasonable judgment concerning the best course' may reflect heteronomous inclinations, cultural conditioning, or self-deception rather than pure practical reason.
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    • 3.A freedom defined by subjective reasonable judgment collapses the crucial Kantian distinction between autonomy and sophisticated self-interest, undermining its normative force.
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    But in addition to defending the bare logical possibility of such a universal reconciliation on libertarian grounds, Eric Reitan has set forth an intriguing argument, which he calls “the Argument from Infinite Opportunity,” for the conclusion that God can effectively guarantee the salvation of all sinners without ever interfering with anyone’s libertarian freedom (see Kronen and Reitan 2011, Ch. 8). The basic idea here is that a sinner could have, if necessary, infinitely many opportunities over an unending stretch of time to repent and to submit to God freely. So consider this. Although it is...

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