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    If the will's exercise depends on the intellect's apprehe... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The will is the primary source of freedom in a human being.

    If the will's exercise depends on the intellect's apprehension of the good, freedom is located in the rational judgment, not will alone.

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    • 1.The will cannot desire what the intellect does not represent as good, so intellect necessarily constrains will's possible actions.
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    • 2.Rational judgment determines which goods are apparent, making it the prior condition enabling meaningful choice and moral responsibility.
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    • 3.Without intellectual discernment, will's exercise becomes arbitrary impulse rather than free choice grounded in reasons.
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    • 1.The intellect's apprehension can present multiple goods; will's freedom lies in selecting among them despite intellect's equal representation.
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    • 2.Locating freedom in judgment makes akrasia (acting against better judgment) inexplicable as a genuine exercise of freedom.
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    • 3.Will can resist or reject the intellect's apprehension, suggesting will possesses independence not reducible to intellectual determination.
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