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    Challenges→A solitary divine Person could not flourish.

    An omniscient being's perfect self-knowledge may itself constitute a sufficiently rich intentional object for complete flourishing.

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    • 1.Self-knowledge of infinite complexity (all truths about oneself) provides inexhaustible cognitive engagement, satisfying the condition for flourishing.
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    • 2.Flourishing requires only that an agent's capacities are fully realized; external objects are instrumentally necessary only for finite minds.
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    • 3.An omniscient being's self-knowledge includes knowledge of all possible states and perspectives, making it relationally complete without external objects.
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    • 1.Flourishing involves actualization of relational capacities—love, creation, response—which require genuinely other beings, not mere self-contemplation.
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    • 2.Perfect self-knowledge is static (all truths already grasped); flourishing requires dynamic engagement, growth, and genuine novelty over time.
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    • 3.Even infinite complexity becomes a closed loop without alterity; flourishing requires surprise and genuine otherness that self-knowledge cannot provide.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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