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    Synderesis provides human beings with insight into God's ... — Carmelics
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    Synderesis provides human beings with insight into God's intentions and the ultimate purpose of human life.

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    • 1.The natural law's moral principles direct human beings toward their ultimate end, which is happiness.
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    • 2.Synderesis grasps and possesses the moral principles of the natural law.
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    • 3.The natural law is a participation in the eternal law, which reflects divine wisdom directing all creatures toward their ends.
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    • 1.Synderesis, as Aquinas defines it, grasps only the most general precepts of natural law, not specific divine intentions or teleological ends.
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    • 2.Knowledge of God's particular intentions requires revelation or theological reasoning beyond what natural moral intuition can supply.
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    • 3.A faculty limited to 'do good, avoid evil' cannot bridge the epistemic gap to specific claims about divine purpose without additional metaphysical assumptions.
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    • 1.Kant's critique establishes that deriving moral insight from a purported divine purpose commits the fallacy of grounding autonomy in heteronomy.
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    • 2.If synderesis derives its normative force from God's intentions, moral obligation becomes contingent on theological commitments rather than practically necessary reason.
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    In broad terms, synderesis is a link between the human intellect and the divine wisdom. The universe is created and governed by a providential God and is therefore subject to the order of final causality. Accordingly, all things, rational and non-rational alike, seek their proper ends. Non-rational beings, since they lack will and intellect and are therefore incapable of prudential reasoning, achieve their ends through the natural inclinations that are implanted in them by God. In this sense, th
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