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    Freedom of choice makes truly moral action possible — Carmelics
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    Freedom of choice makes truly moral action possible

    Free Will & ForeknowledgeMoral Responsibility
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    • 1.The capacity for choice enables acting against instinct and inclination
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    • 2.Distinctively moral action requires the ability to choose
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    • 1.Hard determinists like Derk Pereboom argue that causal determination of action is compatible with moral worth grounded in reasons-responsiveness.
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    • 2.An agent whose neurological constitution reliably produces compassionate, just actions expresses moral value regardless of whether libertarian choice obtained.
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    • 3.Therefore, freedom of choice is neither necessary nor sufficient for moral action; reliable alignment with moral reasons is what matters.
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    • 1.Aristotle's virtuous agent acts rightly from stable character without deliberate choice, yet performs paradigmatically moral actions.
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    • 2.If moral excellence requires that virtue become second nature, freedom of choice is a scaffold discarded in genuine moral maturity, not its precondition.
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    What then of Rousseau’s key claim that freedom and authority are reconciled in his ideal republic through obedience to the general will? This claim finds notorious and deliberately paradoxical expression in Book 1 chapter 7 of The Social Contract, where Rousseau writes of citizens being “forced to be free” when they are constrained to obey the general will. The opening words of The Social Contract themselves refer to freedom, with the famous saying that “Man is born free, but is everywhere in ch
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