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    It is not the case that To arrive at a position of religious faith, the individual must first embrace the ethical.

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    • 1.Kierkegaard's Abraham in Fear and Trembling achieves faith precisely by a movement that bypasses rather than fulfills ethical demands.
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    • 2.If faith requires suspending the ethical, then the ethical stage is not a necessary precondition but an obstacle faith must overcome.
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    • 3.A logically necessary precondition cannot simultaneously be the primary obstacle to the very thing it supposedly enables.
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    • 1.Neoplatonic and mystical traditions (e.g., Plotinus, Meister Eckhart) describe direct ascent to the divine that bypasses conventional moral scaffolding.
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    • 2.If immediate religious experience can precede systematic ethical formation, then the ethical stage is contingent, not logically prior, to faith.
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    • 1.Religious faith may entail a teleological suspension of the ethical.
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    • 2.One cannot suspend or transcend the ethical without first having embraced it.
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