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    God's rational conduct sets the model for proper human ac... — Carmelics
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    God's rational conduct sets the model for proper human action.

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    • 1.God acts on reason rather than passionate anger or impulse.
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    • 2.Actions grounded in reason rather than impulse are error-free and exemplary.
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    • 1.Divine attributes like omnipotence, omniscience, and impassibility place God categorically beyond human conditions of action.
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    • 2.A model for action must share enough structural similarity with the agent to make imitation coherent and action-guiding.
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    • 3.Therefore, God's rational conduct cannot function as a genuine model for human action without collapsing morally relevant differences between divine and human agency.
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    • 1.Kierkegaard's teleological suspension of the ethical demonstrates that paradigmatic divine action can demand suspension of rational-moral norms, not their fulfillment.
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    • 2.If exemplary divine conduct includes commands like the binding of Isaac, then divine action undermines rather than grounds universal rational ethics.
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    • 3.A model that generates contradictory action-guidance across cases fails as a coherent normative standard for human conduct.
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    In this work Plutarch examines an issue with which philosophers of his age are seriously concerned, namely that of theodicy. Even if God is not responsible for occurrences of evil (see above, sect. 4.2), there is a question of why these are not always punished promptly by God. In his treatise On the Delays of the Divine Vengeance Plutarch addresses the question of whether the delays of divine punishment speak against the existence of divine providence (550C) and he replies that this is not the c
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