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    God's lack of freedom to do evil precludes God's being pe... — Carmelics
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    God's lack of freedom to do evil precludes God's being perfectly morally good.

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    • 1.Kant's moral worth doctrine holds that genuine moral goodness requires acting from duty against competing inclinations, not from necessity.
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    • 2.An agent constitutionally incapable of evil faces no competing inclinations to overcome, eliminating the struggle that grounds moral worth.
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    • 3.Therefore God's necessary goodness produces morally inert behavior, not praiseworthy virtue in the Kantian sense.
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    • 1.Aristotelian virtue ethics grounds moral excellence in habituated choice: virtuous agents could choose otherwise but reliably choose well.
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    • 2.An agent for whom evil is metaphysically impossible exercises no genuine choice between alternatives, failing the Aristotelian condition for virtue.
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    • 3.Perfect moral goodness, properly understood as virtue, presupposes the real availability of vicious alternatives that God demonstrably lacks.
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    • 1.On a libertarian account of free will, being free with respect to an action requires the possibility of acting otherwise.
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    • 2.Freedom is a necessary condition for moral assessability.
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    • 3.God lacks the possibility of doing evil.
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    If one insists upon a libertarian account of free will in which to be free with respect to an action requires the possibility of acting otherwise, then the connection between freedom and moral assessability entails that God’s lack of freedom to do evil precludes God’s being perfectly morally good. It is unclear how damaging that outcome would be. If one is convinced that moral goodness is a great-making feature that God must exhibit, then there is a deep problem for perfect being theology, as it
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    Therefore God's necessary goodness produces morally inert behavior, not praisewo...
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