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    Faith is the most important task to be achieved by a huma... — Carmelics
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    Faith is the most important task to be achieved by a human being

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    • 1.Only on the basis of faith does an individual have a chance to become a true self
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    • 2.Becoming a true self is the life-work which God judges for eternity
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    • 1.Kant argues the highest moral task is autonomous rational legislation of the categorical imperative, which requires no theological grounding.
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    • 2.A task grounded in heteronomous submission to divine authority undermines the rational autonomy that constitutes genuine moral worth.
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    • 3.If Kierkegaard's faith requires suspending the ethical (as in Fear and Trembling), it conflicts with rather than fulfills the most important human task.
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    • 1.Aristotle's eudaimonia framework demonstrates that human flourishing is achieved through cultivated virtue and practical wisdom, not faith.
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    • 2.If moral excellence and rational self-development constitute the highest human task independently of faith, faith cannot be uniquely most important.
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    For Kierkegaard Christian faith is not a matter of regurgitating church dogma. It is a matter of individual subjective passion, which cannot be mediated by the clergy or by human artefacts. Faith is the most important task to be achieved by a human being, because only on the basis of faith does an individual have a chance to become a true self. This self is the life-work which God judges for eternity.
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