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    Occam's Razor favors the Neoplatonic emanationist account... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Even when rationality prevails in the world soul, there is room for disharmony and disorder in the cosmos

    Occam's Razor favors the Neoplatonic emanationist account, which explains disharmony without requiring Plutarch's dualistic world-soul structure.

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    • 1.Emanationism requires only one causal principle (The One), while dualism posits two independent cosmic forces, violating parsimony.
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    • 2.Emanationism explains gradations of reality and imperfection through necessary ontological hierarchy, not ad hoc soul conflict.
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    • 3.Plutarch's dualism struggles to explain why a good world-soul permits evil without introducing further explanatory entities.
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    • 1.Emanationism's infinite chain of intermediaries between The One and matter may multiply hidden entities beyond Plutarch's two principles.
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    • 2.Dualism directly addresses the hard problem of evil via agent conflict; emanationism's 'necessary degradation' lacks explanatory force for moral disharmony.
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    • 3.Occam's Razor favors simplicity in assumptions, not ontological levels—Plutarch's framework may be simpler for human ethical experience.
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