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    Challenges→The kind of love Plato discusses in the Symposium is not found in God

    If divine eros is understood as agapeic overflow rather than acquisitive want, Abrabanel's premise that desire entails lack is defeated on its own Platonic grounds.

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    • 1.Plato's Symposium distinguishes higher love (ascending to Forms) from lower desire, supporting non-acquisitive eros models.
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    • 2.Divine overflow (agape) is self-sufficient and generative, logically incompatible with lack-based desire requiring external objects.
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    • 3.Abrabanel conflates all desire with appetite; rejecting this equation dissolves his argument without abandoning Platonic frameworks.
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    • 1.Even self-sufficient overflow requires a recipient; giving presupposes absence in the other, reintroducing lack into the system.
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    • 2.Plato's eros fundamentally aims toward the Good; framing it as purposeless overflow departs from rather than defeats Abrabanel's reading.
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    • 3.Divine agape and Platonic eros serve different theological functions; invoking one to refute the other begs the question of their compatibility.
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