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    There exist genuine duties that cannot be justified in te... — Carmelics
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    There exist genuine duties that cannot be justified in terms of social norms.

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    • 1.Abraham's obligation to sacrifice Isaac is a genuine duty.
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    • 2.Abraham's obligation to sacrifice Isaac is unintelligible and unjustifiable within the framework of social norms.
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    • 3.Therefore, at least one genuine duty falls outside the scope of social-norm justification.
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    • 1.What appears as a divine command is always mediated through human interpretation, cultural context, and psychological projection.
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    • 2.Any duty grounded in a subjectively interpreted divine command cannot be distinguished from self-willed action dressed in theological language.
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    • 3.Therefore, Abraham's case provides no evidence of duties beyond social norms, only evidence of unverifiable private revelation.
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    • 1.Hegel's ethical theory holds that genuine moral obligations emerge from and are realized through concrete social institutions like family, civil society, and the state.
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    • 2.A purported duty that systematically defies ethical life (Sittlichkeit) is not a higher duty but a regression to arbitrary subjective willfulness.
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    • 3.Kierkegaard's 'teleological suspension of the ethical' thus describes moral pathology, not a legitimate category of supra-social obligation.
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    Kierkegaard, however, recognizes duties that cannot be justified in terms of social norms. Much of Fear and Trembling turns on the notion that Abraham’s would-be sacrifice of his son Isaac is ineffable in terms of social norms, and requires a “teleological suspension of the ethical”. That is, Abraham recognizes a duty to something higher than both his social duty not to kill an innocent person and his personal commitment to his beloved son, viz. his duty to obey God’s commands. However, he canno
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