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    If a person freely acts wrongly in a given set of circums... — Carmelics
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    If a person freely acts wrongly in a given set of circumstances, it was not within God's power to induce that person to have freely acted otherwise in the exact same circumstances.

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    • 1.Not even an omnipotent being can causally determine a genuinely free choice.
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    • 2.The reality of free will introduces an element that lies outside of God's direct causal control.
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    • 1.Middle knowledge (scientia media) holds that God knows what any free creature would freely choose in any possible circumstance.
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    • 2.If God possesses middle knowledge, he can actualize circumstances in which a person freely chooses rightly without causally determining that choice.
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    • 3.Therefore, God's inability to induce free right action 'in the exact same circumstances' does not exhaust his power to secure free right action via circumstantial variation.
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    • 1.Compatibilism, defended by Leibniz, Hume, and Frankfurt, holds that free action is compatible with causal determination by antecedent conditions.
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    • 2.If compatibilism is true, an omnipotent God could causally structure a person's desires and reasons such that they freely—in the compatibilist sense—choose rightly.
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    • 3.The claim presupposes libertarian free will without argument, making its conclusion conditional on a contested and non-universal conception of freedom.
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    Key Terms

    Modal logic / modal concepts(as used in the logical structure of this statement)
    The study of possibility and necessity—what *could* be true versus what *must* be true—rather than just what *is* true.
    Omnipotence (or omnipotent)(as used in theology and philosophy of religion)
    The quality of having unlimited power; being able to do anything that is logically possible.
    The problem of free will and God's omnipotence(as used in philosophy of religion)
    A famous philosophical puzzle: if God is all-powerful and knows the future, how can humans have genuine free choice? This statement describes one attempted solution.
    compatibilism(Offered as a response to the traditional problem of free will)
    The philosophical position that free will and moral responsibility are compatible with determinism being true
    determinism(Discussion of classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and general relativity)
    A property of physical theories concerning whether the laws governing a system fully fix future (and past) states given present conditions; admits of degrees ('fall only a bit short')
    free will(Kant's practical resolution of the third antinomy)
    An exemption from the laws of nature; the power of doing and forbearing

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    One set of objections arises from within the retributive theory itself, and here are three such objections that critics have raised. First, why should the greatness of the one against whom an offense occurs determine the degree of one’s personal guilt anyway? According to most proponents of the retributive theory, the personal guilt of those who act wrongly must depend, at least in part, upon certain facts about them. A schizophrenic young man who tragically kills his loving mother, believing her to be a sinister space alien who has devoured his real mother, may need treatment, they would say,...

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