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    It is not the case that The kind of love Plato discusses in the Symposium is not found in God

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.Platonic eros in the Symposium is not merely lack-based desire but also an overflowing creative impulse toward generation in beauty.
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    • 2.Diotima's account explicitly links eros to productive excess, which is compatible with divine plenitude rather than privation.
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    • 3.A God of infinite beauty may still exercise eros as a generative outpouring toward creation, not as desire born of deficiency.
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    • 1.Pseudo-Dionysius and the Neoplatonic tradition explicitly attribute eros to the divine as a self-diffusive love that flows outward from fullness.
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    • 2.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.The love Plato defines is a desire of beauty
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    • 2.Whatever desires beauty lacks beauty and is therefore not beautiful
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    • 3.God is the highest beauty and lacks no beauty
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