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    It is not the case that There exist genuine duties that cannot be justified in terms of social norms.

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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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    • 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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