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    Divine love essentially involves a will toward the good o... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Divine love does not imply further Persons beyond those already implied by divine self-knowing.

    Divine love essentially involves a will toward the good of another, while self-knowing is an intellectual rather than volitional act.

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    • 1.Love necessarily expresses itself through action and choice directed toward another's flourishing, which is inherently volitional.
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    • 2.Self-knowledge is achieved through contemplation and rational reflection, which are intellectual operations distinct from willing.
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    • 3.A being can know itself without willing anything for itself, suggesting knowledge and will operate on different metaphysical levels.
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    • 1.Divine love and self-knowledge may not be separable: willing another's good requires understanding oneself as the willing agent.
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    • 2.Self-knowledge involves valuing and preferring certain truths about oneself, making it partially volitional, not purely intellectual.
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    • 3.If divine love is essential to God and self-knowledge is essential to God, their categorical distinction contradicts divine unity.
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