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    Resemblance to God is a necessary but not sufficient cond... — Carmelics
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    Resemblance to God is a necessary but not sufficient condition for a finite creature's goodness.

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    • 1.There are ways in which finite creatures might resemble God that would not be suitable to the type of creature they are.
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    • 2.A belief such as 'I am all-knowing' is a perfection in God because it is true of God, but the same belief in a finite creature who is not all-knowing would not be good.
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    • 3.A necessary condition that admits of counterexamples cannot also be a sufficient condition.
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    • 1.Euthyphro-style dilemmas show that grounding creaturely goodness in resemblance to God makes goodness arbitrary unless God's nature is itself constrained by independent norms.
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    • 2.If independent norms constrain what counts as divine perfection, those norms—not resemblance to God—are the genuine necessary condition for creaturely goodness.
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    • 3.Therefore, resemblance to God is at most a derivative marker of goodness, not a necessary condition that does genuine explanatory work.
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    • 1.On a Thomistic account, creaturely goodness is constituted by actualizing the form proper to one's kind, not by resemblance to a separate divine standard.
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    • 2.If goodness for each kind of creature is fully specified by its own formal nature, resemblance to God is neither necessary nor sufficient but merely correlative to goodness.
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    The resemblance requirement identifies a necessary condition for being good, but it does not yet give us a sufficient condition. This is because there are ways in which finite creatures might resemble God that would not be suitable to the type of creature they are. For example, if God were all-knowing, then the belief, “I am all-knowing,” would be a suitable belief for God to have. In God, such a belief—because true—would be part of God’s perfection. However, as neither you nor I are all-knowing
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    Resemblance to God is a necessary condition for goodness in finite creatures.
    There are ways in which finite creatures might resemble God that would not be su...
    Therefore, resemblance to God is at most a derivative marker of goodness, not a ...
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