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    It is not the case that A life structured around a divine activity cannot coherently also be structured around essentially human political engagement without ranking one as merely instrumental.

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    • 1.Many activities can be co-ultimate without ranking if they genuinely don't conflict in practice for a particular person.
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    • 2.Some theological traditions see divine activity *as expressed through* political justice, making the distinction between them conceptually false.
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    • 3.The claim equivocates on 'structuring': living by both commitments doesn't require ranking them; only conflicts demand hierarchy.
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    • 1.Ultimate commitments necessarily structure subordinate ones; ranking reveals which activity is truly ultimate for an agent.
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    • 2.Divine activity aims at transcendent ends while political engagement aims at temporal collective welfare—fundamentally different telos.
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    • 3.Pretending activities have equal priority obscures honest self-knowledge about which commitments would be sacrificed under genuine conflict.
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