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    There is a deep problem for perfect being theology regarding the co-realizability of divine freedom and divine moral goodness.

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    • 1.Under libertarian free will, genuinely free choices require the agent could have chosen otherwise, including choosing evil.
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    • 2.A being who cannot choose evil lacks the alternative possibilities libertarianism requires for moral responsibility.
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    • 3.Therefore, a perfectly good God who necessarily avoids evil cannot be free in the libertarian sense, generating a genuine co-realizability tension.
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    • 1.Kant and Leibniz distinguish between acting from inclination and acting from rational autonomy, but divine necessity collapses this distinction for God.
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    • 2.If God's nature necessitates only good choices, God's 'decisions' are determined outputs of divine nature, not autonomous rational acts in any robust sense.
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    • 3.Frankfurt-style compatibilism cannot rescue divine freedom here because it still requires higher-order volitions that could, in principle, endorse alternatives.
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    • 1.Moral goodness is a great-making feature that God must exhibit.
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    • 2.God must be free.
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    • 3.God must be perfectly morally good.
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    If one insists upon a libertarian account of free will in which to be free with respect to an action requires the possibility of acting otherwise, then the connection between freedom and moral assessability entails that God’s lack of freedom to do evil precludes God’s being perfectly morally good. It is unclear how damaging that outcome would be. If one is convinced that moral goodness is a great-making feature that God must exhibit, then there is a deep problem for perfect being theology, as it
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