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    Human beings must execute the plans they conceive. — Carmelics
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    Human beings must execute the plans they conceive.

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    • 1.Planned conduct is both complex and orderly, requiring an author who both designs and carries out the plan.
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    • 2.Human beings are obviously the ones who think up their own plans.
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    • 1.Neurological compulsion, addiction, and akrasia demonstrate that agents routinely conceive plans they are causally incapable of executing.
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    • 2.Frankfurt's cases show that external mechanisms can block execution of conceived plans without removing the agent's authorship of those plans.
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    • 1.Descartes' deceiving demon and Putnam's brain-in-a-vat scenarios establish that conceiving a plan is logically separable from any corresponding bodily execution.
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    • 2.If conception and execution are logically separable, the claim that humans *must* execute their conceived plans conflates a contingent causal tendency with a necessary connection.
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    In the third argument for moral liberty, which is the most obscure of the three, Reid claims that a person could not engage in planned conduct if not endowed with power. Since it's obvious, he thinks, that we do engage in planned conduct, it follows that we must have power over our actions. Reid links the third argument for moral liberty with the argument from design for God's existence. According to the argument from design, God must exist since the world is so complex, and yet so orderly, that
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