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    It is not the case that Aquinas held that beatific vision so transforms the intellect that prior earthly attachments become functionally irrelevant without destroying personal continuity.

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    • 1.If beatific vision so transforms the intellect that earthly attachments become functionally irrelevant, it seems to destroy what made the person themselves.
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    • 2.Personal continuity requires some persistent evaluative framework; radical reordering of what matters threatens the coherence of a unified self over time.
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    • 1.Intellectual transformation can preserve identity while radically reordering priorities, as seen in religious conversion or philosophical enlightenment.
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    • 2.Aquinas's framework allows beatific vision to reshape desire without erasing memory, maintaining psychological continuity across the transformation.
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    • 3.The same person can coherently cease valuing what once mattered—earthly attachments become irrelevant, not the person who once held them.
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