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    It is not possible even for God to love every person unif... — Carmelics
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    It is not possible even for God to love every person uniformly to the same degree.

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    • 1.People in fact have incompatible interests.
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    • 2.Two interests are incompatible just in case attempts to bring about one of them require that the other be impeded.
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    • 3.Love of the deepest kind has as a necessary constituent identifying with the interests of one's beloved.
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    • 1.Divine love (agape) in the Thomistic and Scotist traditions is not constituted by identification with particular interests but by willing the good of the other as such.
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    • 2.If love is willing the good of another rather than identifying with their contingent desires, incompatible interests pose no obstacle to uniform divine benevolence.
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    • 3.Aquinas explicitly distinguishes between God loving all things equally in intensity of will while loving different things to different degrees of good conferred (ST I q.20 a.3).
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    • 1.The argument equivocates between love as partiality—favoring one party's interests over another's—and love as impartial concern for the flourishing of each person.
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    • 2.A perfectly rational and omniscient agent can simultaneously hold incompatible interests in view and promote the best achievable outcome for each party without privileging either, as per Kantian impartiality.
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    • 3.Incompatibility of interests entails a constraint on what outcomes are achievable, not a constraint on the uniformity of the loving disposition directed toward each person.
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    In response to similar questions, Jeff Jordan has challenged the whole idea, which he acknowledges to be widely accepted among theistic philosophers, that “God’s love must be maximally extended and equally intense” (Jordan 2012, 53). According to Jordan, such maximally extended love would be a deficiency in any human who manifested it; hence, it should not be numbered among God’s perfections or great-making properties. Neither is it possible, he appears to argue, that God should love equally each and every created person. For “if God has deep attachments [with some of them], it follows that he...

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