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    It is not the case that Concrete occasions of love deserve to count as divinity because they are triply ultimate.

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    • 1.Metaphysical ultimacy requires necessary existence and aseity, which contingent occasions of love, being temporally bounded events, cannot possess.
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    • 2.Whitehead's own process theology distinguishes God's primordial nature from creaturely occasions precisely because occasions lack the eternal envisagement of possibilities required for efficient causation of the whole.
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    • 1.Axiological ultimacy entails a standard of value that transcends and grounds particular instances, so love-occasions cannot be both the measure and the measured without vicious circularity.
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    • 2.Classical theists from Aquinas to Leibniz argue that goodness must be grounded in a being whose essence just is goodness, not in contingent relational events that merely instantiate it.
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    • 1.Concrete occasions of love are metaphysically ultimate because they are the efficient and final cause of the universe.
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    • 2.Concrete occasions of love are axiologically ultimate because they are the best of things.
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    • 3.Concrete occasions of love are soteriologically ultimate because they are deeply fulfilling.
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