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    Libertarian free will requires only that no agent directl... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→If the libertarian theory of free will is correct, an omnipotent agent (other than Plato) cannot bring about (f), but Plato can.

    Libertarian free will requires only that no agent directly determines the free action, not that no agent arranges conditions under which the action is freely performed.

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    • 1.Free will requires agents act without coercion, not that their circumstances arise without any prior causation.
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    • 2.Parents arrange conditions for children's choices (education, values) yet we attribute moral responsibility to those choices.
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    • 3.Distinguishing direct determination from condition-arranging preserves free will while avoiding theological determinism problems.
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    • 1.If conditions are sufficiently arranged, the agent's response becomes predictable and causally necessitated, undermining freedom.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'direct determination' and 'arranging conditions' is conceptually unclear and potentially arbitrary.
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    • 3.Omniscient agents who arrange all conditions can predict outcomes with certainty, which seems incompatible with genuine libertarian freedom.
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