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    Morris's objection that unconditional commitment to two d... — Carmelics
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    Morris's objection that unconditional commitment to two distinct beings is possible if their wills are necessarily harmonious should be discounted

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    • 1.Numerical distinctness between persons does not entail metaphysical independence of will, as Aquinas's relational account of Trinitarian persons demonstrates.
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    • 2.If two beings share a single divine nature (as in classical theism), their wills are grounded in that nature and cannot diverge, making necessary harmony coherent.
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    • 3.Unconditional commitment presupposes reliability of the committed-to being, and necessary harmony provides stronger reliability than contingent agreement.
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    • 1.Leibniz's pre-established harmony shows that distinct substances can have necessarily coordinated states without this coordination being logically incoherent.
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    • 2.If necessary harmony of wills is metaphysically possible for distinct beings, Morris's counterexample survives even if such harmony requires a shared ontological ground.
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    • 1.The wills of distinct persons are necessarily opposable
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    • 2.Necessarily opposable wills undermine the claim that two distinct beings could have necessarily harmonious wills
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    Another possible problem concerns the truth of 10. Thus, Thomas Morris has objected that one could be unconditionally committed to each of two distinct beings provided that their wills were necessarily harmonious. For if their wills were necessarily harmonious, they could not require of us conflicting acts. This objection should be discounted, however, because the wills of distinct persons are necessarily opposable. (See discussion in section 5 above.)
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