It is necessarily true that God creates w* — Carmelics

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It is necessarily true that God creates w*

Divine Attributes Modality & Possibility

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1.Being the best possible world is an essential property of whatever world has it
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2.w* is the best possible world
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3.Therefore it is necessarily true that w* is the best possible world
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1.Necessarily creating any particular world is incompatible with divine freedom, as Leibniz himself acknowledged God deliberates among compossibles.
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2.If God necessarily creates w*, God lacks libertarian freedom, collapsing into Spinozistic necessitarianism where God cannot do otherwise.
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3.Divine aseity requires that God's creative act be contingent, not necessitated by any external standard like 'bestness'.
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