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    It is not the case that Not even God can cause a person to freely do what is right.

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    • 1.Alvin Plantinga's own middle knowledge framework (Molinism) holds that God knows counterfactuals of creaturely freedom prior to creation.
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    • 2.If God has middle knowledge, he could actualize a world where creatures with libertarian freedom always freely choose good, provided no 'transworld depravity' afflicts them.
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    • 3.The claim that God cannot cause free right action conflates causal determination with the selection of which free creatures and circumstances to instantiate.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Compatibilist free will, defended by Hume, Frankfurt, and Dennett, holds that freedom is acting from one's own desires without external compulsion, not from uncaused causation.
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    • 2.If compatibilism is coherent, God could arrange a person's desires and character such that they freely—in the relevant sense—choose rightly.
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    Reasons Against

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    • It is part of the definition of libertarian free will that an action that is free in that sense cannot be caused by anything outside of the agent.
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