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    Perfect moral goodness, properly understood as virtue, pr... — Carmelics
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    Supports→God's lack of freedom to do evil precludes God's being perfectly morally good.

    Perfect moral goodness, properly understood as virtue, presupposes the real availability of vicious alternatives that God demonstrably lacks.

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    • 1.Virtue requires deliberative choice between genuinely available alternatives; without real temptation, moral choice becomes mechanical.
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    • 2.God's necessity precludes vice; therefore God cannot possess virtue properly understood as hard-won excellence through moral struggle.
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    • 3.Human moral development depends on overcoming real vicious inclinations; this developmental model suggests virtue requires such struggle.
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    • 1.Virtue could consist in stable dispositions toward good that require no temptation; a saint with no violent impulses still exhibits courage.
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    • 2.God's inability to do evil reflects infinite excellence, not moral deficiency; Superman's invincibility doesn't negate his heroism.
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    • 3.Virtue defined as choice-dependent conflates moral psychology with metaphysical goodness; these may come apart at the divine level.
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