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    It is not the case that Abraham's obedience to God's command cannot be adjudicated by public reason

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    • 1.Public reason does not require shared metaphysical premises, only overlapping procedural standards for evaluating extraordinary claims (Rawls, Habermas).
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    • 2.Claims of divine command that override moral norms are precisely the kind of extraordinary claims demanding the highest public scrutiny, not exemption from it.
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    • 3.Exempting religious commands from public adjudication creates an unfalsifiable category that could justify any atrocity under divine authorization.
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    • 1.Kant argues in 'The Conflict of the Faculties' that any command to violate clear moral duties must be judged false regardless of its purported divine source.
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    • 2.If Abraham's command cannot be adjudicated by public reason, then neither can any other claimed divine command, eliminating the distinction between faith and fanaticism.
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    • 1.The requirement of communicability and clear decision procedures can be suspended by God's fiat
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    • 2.Public reason relies on shared communicable norms to decide whether an act is legitimate or deluded
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    • 3.Abraham's case involves a divine command that suspends those shared norms
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