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    In a no-best-world scenario, if world-value exhausts God'... — Carmelics
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    In a no-best-world scenario, if world-value exhausts God's reasons for acting, God never does what God has most reason to do, and thus God's action is never supremely morally good.

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    • 1.Rational agency requires that for any action chosen, there exists a sufficient reason that favors it over alternatives (Leibniz's Principle of Sufficient Reason).
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    • 2.In a no-best-world scenario, no world provides a sufficient reason for selection, since any candidate world is defeated by a better one.
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    • 3.An agent who acts without sufficient reason acts arbitrarily, and arbitrary action is incompatible with supreme moral goodness.
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    • 1.Moral perfection entails responsiveness to reasons such that the agent reliably does what the objective axiological facts most support (Parfit's reasons-responsiveness condition).
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    • 2.If world-value exhausts God's reasons, then in a no-best-world scenario God's choice is never fully underwritten by those axiological facts.
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    • 3.An agent whose choices are systematically underdetermined by the very reasons that constitute its standard of goodness fails the reasons-responsiveness condition for moral perfection.
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    • 1.A world is a maximal state of affairs that includes everything morally relevant.
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    • 2.From a deliberative perspective, God must have more reason to realize a world with more value.
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    • 3.In a no-best-world scenario, there is always a better world God could have actualized.
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    Divine AttributesAgainst a future action of God

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    exhausts (God's reasons for acting)(as used in philosophy of action)
    Completely uses up or accounts for all of God's motivations—in other words, the only reason God acts is because of how good a world is.
    no-best-world scenario(as used in theology and philosophy of God)
    A situation where there's no single perfect world that God could create—no matter what world God makes, there's always another possible world that would be equally good or better.
    supremely morally good(as used in ethics and theology)
    Acting in the best possible way, with perfect moral virtue; doing exactly what morality demands at the highest level.
    world-value(as used in theology)
    How good or bad a possible world is overall—basically, a ranking of how morally perfect or imperfect a world would be.

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    If we think that the evaluation of worlds is distinct from the evaluation of actions, then there is room to resist the move from (3) to (4), and this is indeed the standard point at which to resist. One might object that this resistance is bound to come to nothing. A world is a maximal state of affairs; everything that is morally relevant, and thus can give God reason to choose to actualize one world over another, is included in its value. So it of course follows that, from the deliberative pers
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