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Ethical knowledge is a way of being ;
it is different from scientific knowledge
in that it is not knowledge about objects or events.
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Freedom is necessary to morality ;
it is the primeval abyss out of which all distinctions arise ;
it is the condition of being itself.
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Without a theodicy
-a justification of God in a universe of which evil is a disturbing part-
there can be no ethics :
the only satisfactory theodicy is one in which God is shown as subject to an uncreated freedom.
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Without an adequate theory of man,there can be no ethics :
the only satisfactory philosophical anthropology is one in which man is shown as a personality,a being capable of transcending his natural and social world.
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There is an element of the demonic in man ;
to overcome the demonic,to make creativity possible,man must be deified through the presence of God in time.
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