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    God's freedom is not limited by the eternal truths or imm... — Carmelics
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    God's freedom is not limited by the eternal truths or immutable essences God created.

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    • 1.Nothing outside of God, not even eternal truths or immutable essences, necessitates that God act in one way or another.
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    • 2.Eternal truths and immutable essences are eternal and immutable only because God, whose existence is necessary and immutable, willed them.
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    • 3.The necessity of eternal truths is consequent to God's act of willing, not antecedent to it.
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    • 1.If God freely wills eternal truths, then prior to that act of will, God deliberates, which requires a prior framework of possibilities to deliberate among.
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    • 2.Any such prior framework of possibilities constitutes a constraint on divine freedom antecedent to God's creative act.
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    • 3.Therefore, the voluntarist account generates an infinite regress or presupposes an uncreated structure of possibility that limits God.
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    • 1.On Leibniz's account, eternal truths concerning essences are grounded in the divine intellect, not the divine will, and are thus necessary features of God's own nature.
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    • 2.What is constitutive of God's own nature cannot coherently be described as freely willed by God without collapsing the distinction between God's nature and God's free acts.
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    • 3.Therefore, God's freedom is indeed constrained by eternal truths, which are necessary features of divine intellect rather than contingent products of divine volition.
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    Whereas the creation of true and immutable natures was the work of God’s freewill (not dictated according to his Wisdom, as Malebranche and other critics held), once created, they were necessary. In order to tie this necessity to the immutability of God’s will without limiting God in any way, Le Grand drew on a Scholastic distinction between antecedent and consequent necessity. He argued that true and immutable natures, such as mathematical truths, only possessed a consequent necessity. God did
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