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    It is not the case that The purpose for which humanity was created is to rectify oneself through knowledge of God.

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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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    • 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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