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    Supports→Lower animals, small children, the severely brain damaged, and perhaps even paranoid schizophrenics are rightly excluded from the class of free moral agents.

    Moral freedom requires a minimal degree of rationality, including an ability to learn from experience, an ability to discern normal reasons for acting, and a capacity for moral improvement.

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    Capacity for moral improvement(as one of the requirements for moral freedom)
    The ability to become a better person over time by learning what is right and wrong and actually changing your behavior accordingly.
    moral freedom(Green's tripartite taxonomy of freedom)
    A form of freedom that is necessary but not sufficient for real freedom, subordinate to real and perfect freedom.
    rationality

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    Now, as already indicated, those who embrace a free-will theodicy of hell typically appeal, in the words of Jonathan Kvanvig, to “a libertarian account of human freedom in order to provide a complete response to” the problem of hell (Kvanvig 2011, 54). But of course such a “complete response” would also require a relatively complete account of libertarian freedom. According to Kvanvig, “some formulation of the Principle of Alternative Possibilities (PAP) correctly describes this notion of [libertarian] freedom”; and, as he also points out, this “principle claims that in order to act freely one...

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