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    The purpose for which humanity was created is to rectify ... — Carmelics
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    The purpose for which humanity was created is to rectify oneself through knowledge of God.

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    • 1.Man must know God's commandments and understand God's works.
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    • 2.This knowledge constitutes finding favor in God's eyes.
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    • 3.Ibn Ezra concludes this self-rectification through knowledge is the reason man was created.
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    • 1.Al-Ghazali argued that experiential proximity to God through love and devotional practice surpasses intellectual knowledge as the proper end of human existence.
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    • 2.If the intellect is insufficient to grasp the divine essence, then grounding humanity's purpose in 'knowledge of God' conflates the means of approach with the unreachable end.
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    • 3.Ibn Ezra's inference from 'finding favor in God's eyes' to 'the reason man was created' commits a teleological error by deriving a creative purpose from an evaluative standard.
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    • 1.Aristotle's eudaimonia locates human fulfillment in virtuous activity and political life, not primarily in theoretical knowledge of a divine being.
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    • 2.If moral virtue and civic participation are constitutive of human flourishing, then self-rectification through God-knowledge is at best instrumental, not the telos itself.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    “The person (ha-adam) must set himself aright. He must know the commandments of God, Who created everything. He must try with all of his strength to understand [God’s] works—then he will know his Creator…and when he knows Him he will find favor in His eyes.” After citing some biblical prooftexts—standard fare by then in the Arabic speaking communities for the view that knowledge is the true form of worship—Ibn Ezra sums up: “It is for this reason that man was created. Once one has rectified ones
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