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    Pantheism cannot ground specific moral duties. — Carmelics
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    Pantheism cannot ground specific moral duties.

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    • 1.Spinoza's pantheism identifies God with Nature operating through strict necessity, leaving no normative gap between what is and what ought to be.
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    • 2.Without an ontological distinction between the actual and the normatively required, Hume's is-ought gap cannot be bridged from within a pantheist framework.
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    • 3.Specific moral duties require that some actions be genuinely forbidden, which presupposes alternatives that a necessitarian pantheist God cannot coherently permit.
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    • 1.Grounding moral duties requires a standpoint external to or transcendent of the natural order, as Kant's categorical imperative derives from rational autonomy outside empirical causation.
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    • 2.Pantheism, by identifying God fully with the immanent causal order, eliminates any Archimedean point from which binding obligations could be legislated over nature.
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    • 1.If whatever we do or however things turn out must be deemed the action of God, then no action or outcome can be singled out as morally required.
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    • 2.Pantheism holds that all actions and outcomes are expressions of God.
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    Historically one of the strongest and most persistent objections to pantheism is that, because of its all-encompassing nature, it seems inhospitable to the differentiations of value that characterise life. In what might be thought of as a pantheistic version of the problem of evil, it is challenged that if God includes everything and God is perfect or good, then everything which exists ought to be perfect or good; a conclusion which seems wholly counter to our common experience that much in the
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