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    Moral goodness is constitutively linked to the genuine po... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Divine perfection may not require moral goodness of the kind that requires libertarian freedom.

    Moral goodness is constitutively linked to the genuine possibility of acting otherwise, as Kant and Frankfurt's own critics argue.

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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires that agents could have acted differently; otherwise praise/blame are merely expressions of preference, not justified.
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    • 2.Determinism eliminates genuine alternatives, making moral agency illusory if moral goodness demands actual libertarian freedom.
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    • 3.Without alternative possibilities, moral development and self-improvement become unintelligible—we cannot be improved by exhortation.
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    • 1.Frankfurt cases show agents can be fully morally responsible even when unable to act otherwise due to internal harmony with their desires.
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    • 2.Moral goodness may depend on agent's actual character/motives rather than metaphysical ability to do otherwise in identical circumstances.
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    • 3.The 'alternative possibilities' requirement conflates moral agency with metaphysical libertarianism, a contested empirical claim about causation.
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