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    Challenges→Religious practice can retain meaning through consequentialist or virtue-based frameworks that require no robust libertarian free will.

    Religious meaning traditionally depends on transcendent responsibility: accountability to God requires the libertarian free will to have genuinely chosen obedience or transgression.

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    Accountability(as used in ethics)
    Being responsible and expected to answer for your actions, including facing consequences if you cause harm.
    Transgression(as used in ethics and cultural studies)
    An action that violates a rule, law, or moral code—essentially breaking something you're not supposed to break.
    libertarian free will(Used to frame the tension between divine freedom and divine moral goodness.)
    An account of free will according to which being free with respect to an action requires the possibility of acting otherwise.
    obedience(as used in ethics)
    Following an order or rule because someone in authority told you to, with awareness that it's a command.
    responsibility(as used in ethics)

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    Being morally accountable for your actions—deserving praise or blame for what you do.
    transcendent(Rickert's epistemological framework)
    To really exist without the form of being-conscious (Bewußtheit)

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