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    Divine providence cannot be the source from which provide... — Carmelics
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    Divine providence cannot be the source from which providence derives purely accidentally

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    • 1.An accidental relationship between God and providence is unsuitable for the First Principle
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    • 2.Both a purely causal and a purely accidental relationship with the inferior world are ruled out for the First Principle
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    • 1.Epicurus and Lucretius argue that divine perfection entails complete self-sufficiency, making any providential relation to the world a deficiency in divine nature.
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    • 2.If God's perfection requires total independence from contingent beings, then providence—even essential providence—compromises divine aseity.
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    • 1.Plotinus holds that the One's causal emanation is neither deliberate nor accidental but necessary overflow, collapsing the accidental/essential distinction applied to the First Principle.
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    • 2.If the accidental/essential dichotomy does not cleanly apply to the First Principle, ruling out 'purely accidental' providence does not establish essential providence as the remaining alternative.
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    ‘Abd al-Latif maintains that the action of God’s providence expresses itself both in the superior and in the inferior world; but if in the first case the relationship between divine providence and the superior world is immediate, in the second case it is mediated by the superior world. The relationship between divine providence and those who receive it, however, cannot be thought of as a causal relationship, since in this case “the noble would come into being because of the ignoble and the earli
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