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    God has access to internal mental states and can pass fin... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The fact that humans cannot know agents' intentions does not undermine ethics as a discipline

    God has access to internal mental states and can pass final judgement

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    With regard to the second objection, Abelard grants that other humans cannot know the agent’s intentions—God, of course, does have access to internal mental states, and so there can be a Final Judgement. However, Abelard does not take ethical judgement to pose a problem. God is the only one with a right to pass judgement. Yet this fact doesn’t prevent us from enforcing canons of human justice, because, Abelard holds, human justice has primarily an exemplary and deterrent function. In fact, Abela

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