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    There is an asymmetry between the conditions for freely d... — Carmelics
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    There is an asymmetry between the conditions for freely doing right and freely doing wrong.

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    • 1.Doing the right thing for the right reasons freely does not require an ability to act otherwise.
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    • 2.Committing a wrong or immoral act freely requires an ability to do otherwise and therefore to refrain from acting wrongly.
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    • 1.Frankfurt cases demonstrate that moral responsibility for right action does not require the ability to do otherwise, and this applies symmetrically to wrong action.
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    • 2.If an agent would have performed the wrong act regardless of any intervening factor, they can still be held responsible for wrongdoing without alternative possibilities.
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    • 3.The Frankfurt-style argument against the Principle of Alternative Possibilities applies with equal force to both virtuous and vicious acts, undermining any claimed asymmetry.
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    • 1.Aristotle's account in Nicomachean Ethics holds that virtuous agents who have cultivated stable character traits act rightly from necessity of character, yet are fully praiseworthy.
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    • 2.By parallel reasoning, agents with deeply entrenched vicious dispositions act wrongly from similarly stable character necessity and remain fully blameworthy.
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    • 3.If necessitated right action retains moral worth because the agent formed the relevant disposition voluntarily, the same logic preserves culpability for necessitated wrong action, collapsing the asymmetry.
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    These two very different explanations for a final and irrevocable division within the human race, where some end up in heaven and others in hell, also reflect profound disagreements over the nature of divine grace. Because the Augustinians hold that, in our present condition at least, God owes us nothing, they also believe that the grace God confers upon a limited elect is utterly gratuitous and supererogatory. As John Calvin put it, “For as Jacob, deserving nothing by good works, is taken into grace, Esau, as yet undefiled by any crime, is hated” (Calvin 1960, Bk. III, Ch. XXIII, sec. 12). Bu...

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