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    It is not the case that Man can acquire virtues or vices through the exercise of his own will and choice

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    • 1.Divine foreknowledge of all human choices entails that those choices are determined prior to their occurrence.
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    • 2.If virtuous choices are foreknown with certainty, the agent could not have chosen otherwise, undermining genuine voluntariness.
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    • 3.A will that cannot do otherwise cannot be the true source of moral character acquisition.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Aristotle establishes in Nicomachean Ethics II.1 that virtues are formed by habituation rooted in prior natural disposition and social environment.
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    • 2.If character formation depends substantially on unchosen factors such as upbringing and temperament, individual will is a proximate but not sufficient cause of virtue.
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    • 3.Attributing virtue acquisition primarily to individual will misidentifies a necessary condition as the principal cause.
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    • 1.Providence grants man the capacity to acquire virtues
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    • 2.The success of acquiring virtues lies in the will and choice made by man himself
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    • 3.Man sometimes uses his rational capacity to obtain vices rather than good and virtues
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