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    Genuine perfection requires the capacity for self-determi... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The First Being is perfect, with no deficiency or privation.

    Genuine perfection requires the capacity for self-determination, which al-Farabi's necessitarian First Being structurally cannot possess.

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    • 1.Self-determination requires the ability to act otherwise than one does; necessitarian beings cannot act otherwise by definition.
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    • 2.Perfection intuitively includes authorship of one's own nature; a being whose essence and acts are necessitated lacks this authorship.
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    • 3.If a being's actions flow necessarily from its nature, it is determined by that nature rather than determining itself freely.
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    • 1.Perfection may consist in necessary immutable goodness rather than contingent choice; necessity could entail rather than negate perfection.
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    • 2.Self-determination needn't mean libertarian free will; acting necessarily according to one's perfect rational nature constitutes genuine autonomy.
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    • 3.The claim conflates self-determination with indeterminism; a being could determine itself through its essential nature necessarily.
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