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    It is not the case that If compatibilism is true, then God's acting in the best way in every possible world does not undermine the freedom or moral assessability of God's actions.

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    • 1.Compatibilist freedom requires that an agent's action flows from her own desires and character, not from external compulsion or necessitation by factors outside the agent.
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    • 2.If God's nature necessarily determines every action God performs, God's will is necessitated by metaphysical features not chosen by God, paralleling external compulsion.
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    • 3.Therefore, divine necessary goodness satisfies compatibilism only if necessary nature counts as 'internal,' but this begs the question against libertarians who deny necessitated will is ever truly internal.
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    • 1.Moral praiseworthiness, as argued by Kant and later Fischer, requires that the agent could have responded to reasons favoring a different course of action.
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    • 2.An agent who cannot, in any possible world, respond to reasons favoring a suboptimal action lacks the reasons-responsiveness that grounds genuine moral assessment.
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    • 3.God's necessary perfect goodness, on standard Anselmian accounts, rules out any possible world where God responds to reasons for less-than-best action, undermining the reasons-responsiveness condition even compatibilists like Fischer treat as necessary.
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    • 1.There is no possible world in which God acts in any way other than the best way.
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    • 2.Compatibilism holds that freedom does not require the ability to act otherwise with all circumstances held constant.
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    • 3.An action can be free and subject to moral assessment even if only one outcome is genuinely possible at the point of action, provided compatibilist conditions are met.
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