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    Aquinas distinguishes between loving a person's nature qu... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Christians are required to love even wicked people in this life.

    Aquinas distinguishes between loving a person's nature qua creature and approving of their will, permitting hatred of the latter in the wicked.

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    • 1.God loves all creatures as existing beings while hating sin; we should imitate this distinction between nature and will.
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    • 2.Hating someone's evil choices doesn't require denying their fundamental worth as a rational creature made in God's image.
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    • 3.This distinction preserves both divine justice (punishment of wickedness) and divine mercy (love of human nature).
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    • 1.In practice, a person's will and nature are inseparable; hating someone's persistent will-choices inevitably taints love of their nature.
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    • 2.The distinction risks incoherence: if someone willfully corrupts their nature through vice, the nature and will become integrated aspects of one self.
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    • 3.Telling victims of serious wickedness to love the perpetrator's nature while hating their will may be psychologically and morally unrealistic.
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