Higher immediacy or religious faith is the most important
achievement made by
a person because only faith offers an individual to have a chance to become a
"true self". Self is what is done throughout life which God judges
for
infinity. Consequently, humans have a huge responsibility because those
decided choices in life constitute the eternal salvation or damnation. With
the religious faith, the ethical and aesthetic are needed to form it, that is
why they can not be the same. "Faith itself cannot be mediated into
the
universal, for it would thereby be destroyed." (p.69) To
arrive in the
position of religious faith, the ethical must first be accepted, and a
commitment must be made to choose the ethical and step away from the
aesthetic. The ethical, the universal, is what decides what is good and what
is evil. These traits are not decided upon by society, however. They are
dependent of God and God decides what is good and evil and His definition
would outrank any human definition, so humans are constantly in sin. There
has to be a recognition of a duty to a higher being,
not to just social
norms.
