Moral freedom requires a minimal degree of rationality on the part of the choosing agent, including an ability to learn from experience, an ability to discern normal reasons for acting, and a capacity for moral improvement.
(as used in epistemology (the study of knowledge))
To perceive, recognize, or figure out the difference between things, especially subtle or hard-to-spot differences.
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(Traditional conception being challenged by epistemic relativists)
A cognitive virtue and hallmark of the scientific method, intimately tied to requirements of consistency, justification, warrant, and evidence for beliefs.
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...