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    It is not the case that Not even an omnipotent being can causally determine a genuinely free choice.

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    • 1.Aquinas and Molina argue God's knowledge via middle knowledge or primary causation moves the will from within, making God the source of the very act of willing itself.
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    • 2.If God moves the will as its interior final cause rather than an external constraint, the incompatibility between omnipotent causation and free choice is not self-evident.
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    • 3.The libertarian premise that causal determination entails unfreedom assumes external determination, which classical theists explicitly deny in accounts of divine concurrence.
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    • 1.Classical compatibilists (Hume, Frankfurt) hold that freedom requires acting from one's own desires without external compulsion, not absence of causal determination.
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    • 2.If compatibilism is coherent, an omnipotent being could causally determine the conditions from which a genuinely free choice flows without violating freedom.
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    Reasons Against

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    • Freedom and determinism are incompatible (the libertarian understanding of free will).
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