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    It is not the case that Feuerbach's humanism intensifies the tyranny of the divine over the individual compared to traditional theism.

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    • 1.Traditional theism confines divine scrutiny to believers and posits God as a transcendental subject external to the individual.
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    • 2.Feuerbach's 'Man' as deity can possess everyone, believers and unbelievers alike, extending domination beyond the faithful.
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    • 3.The scrutiny of one's own conscience—demanded by an internalized human essence—is harder to evade than the scrutiny of a transcendental external subject.
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    • 1.Traditional theism permits the individual to negotiate divine demands through prayer, ritual, and grace, providing structured relief valves from absolute moral obligation.
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    • 2.Feuerbach's internalized 'human essence' offers no analogous mechanism for relief: one cannot pray to one's own species-being for forgiveness or dispensation.
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    • 3.An absolute standard with no institutional mediation is structurally more tyrannical than one administered through fallible priests who can grant absolution.
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    • 1.Foucault's analysis in Discipline and Punish shows that internalized surveillance—the panopticon effect—produces more thorough self-policing than external authority ever could.
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    • 2.Feuerbach relocates the divine tribunal from a transcendent God to the immanent 'essence of Man,' transforming every private thought into a site of self-surveillance answerable to species-being.
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    • 3.Stirner's critique anticipates this: a God placed within the self as 'Man' cannot be escaped through death, apostasy, or geographical removal, making its dominion total where traditional theism's remains partial.
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