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God must be an agent (have a free will in the libertarian... — Carmelics

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God must be an agent (have a free will in the libertarian sense)

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1.Intelligence without liberty is really no intelligence at all with respect to any power, excellence, or perfection
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2.God is intelligent
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1.A perfectly rational being necessarily acts according to sufficient reason, making its will determined by reasons rather than libertarian-free.
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2.Leibniz demonstrated that God always chooses the best possible world, meaning divine volition follows necessarily from perfect rationality.
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3.If God's choices are necessitated by perfect goodness and reason, divine agency is compatible with determinism rather than requiring libertarian freedom.
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1.Spinoza established that attributing libertarian free will to God anthropomorphizes the divine and undermines God's status as a necessary being.
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2.A truly necessary being acts from the necessity of its own nature, not from contingent choices between alternatives that libertarian freedom requires.
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If successful, Clarke’s argument a priori establishes all the metaphysical attributes of God (independence, eternality, immutability, infinitude, omnipresence) by examining the nature of necessity and positing the contingency of the world. To reach the personal and moral attributes of God, it is necessary to draw upon further features of the world and argue a posteriori (D 38, W 2.543). Clarke attempted a variety of arguments to establish that God is an agent (that is, that God is not only intel

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