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    It is not the case that Synderesis provides human beings with insight into God's intentions and the ultimate purpose of human life.

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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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    • 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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