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    If compatibilist freedom suffices for genuine moral respo... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→God would have a good reason for creating a world with individuals who possess libertarian free will.

    If compatibilist freedom suffices for genuine moral responsibility and authentic virtue, the purported axiological superiority of libertarian free will—and thus God's reason to prefer it—is unestablished.

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    Key Terms

    Authentic virtue(as what free will is supposed to enable)
    Genuine goodness or excellence of character that truly belongs to a person, not just behavior that looks good on the surface.
    Axiological(as used in ethics)
    Relating to values and what makes things good or bad; from the Greek word 'axios' meaning worthy or valuable.
    Axiological superiority(in describing libertarian free will as supposedly better than compatibilist freedom)
    The claim that one thing is more valuable or better than another thing.
    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
    libertarian free will

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    (Used to frame the tension between divine freedom and divine moral goodness.)
    An account of free will according to which being free with respect to an action requires the possibility of acting otherwise.
    moral responsibility(The author argues for a pluralistic understanding rather than a Kantian-exclusive one)
    A normative concept whose scope is contested; the passage implies it encompasses at least Kantian notions (centered on individual rational agency) and other notions (potentially sociological, collective, or non-individualist in character)

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