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    It is not the case that When reason and will malfunction, synderesis is effectively overthrown and the agent sins.

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    • 1.Aquinas holds that synderesis itself is indefectible and cannot be extinguished, even in the most depraved agent.
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    • 2.If synderesis cannot be overthrown, then malfunction of reason and will constitutes a failure to act on synderesis, not its destruction.
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    • 3.An agent who sins retains synderesis intact, meaning sin reflects a gap between synderesis and action, not synderesis's absence.
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    • 1.Aristotle's account of akrasia shows that agents can knowingly act against correct moral orientation without losing their deliberative faculty.
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    • 2.If weakness of will produces sin while rational apprehension of the good remains operative, synderesis need not be overthrown for sin to occur.
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    • 3.The claim conflates the suppression of synderesis's practical influence with the metaphysically stronger claim of its functional overthrow.
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    • 1.Synderesis governs the other deliberative powers.
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    • 2.When reason and will malfunction, the effect and government of synderesis over other deliberative powers is repulsed and broken.
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    • 3.When synderesis is overthrown, the agent loses proper orientation toward the good and sins.
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