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heart reflects one’s closeness realize it through reflections and
to God. An impure sea will not self-search. Ethics, in this
reflect the depth and beauty of symbiosis, is a tool to control
the sky likewise will an one’s Self, and thereby obtain
impure heart not reflect the closeness to God.
depth of the Divine. The purer Like in the Islamic ethical
the heart is, God will be thoughts, humans must take
visible in one’s Self. (Sabir, the initiative to act, to intent to
2007: 115) act, or to search for God. Both
Conclusively, Kierkegaard ethical thoughts agree to the
argues that the Self is the true point, that God is always near,
reality of humans; But the Self and all humans possess the
will never escape God. ability to reach Him.
Humans will never be able to Humans are required to want
outrun God, even if one does the nearness of God, and
not believe in God, God is actively search for the path
always near. He is always in towards Him. The essence of
front, behind, on both sides, both understandings of the Self
beneath and above. and God is similar, and
Humans can know God; But likewise is the relation between
one must truly know oneself the two in the regards to ethics.
through self-reflection and This sums up the role of
self-recognition. virtues, and the position of
He concluded that the Self God and the Self in the search
has no stagnation, as it always for an ethical life.
moves in relation to God, Conclusively, we can argue
closer or further away that there is no ethical life
depending on one’s self- without virtues, and the father
understanding and self-control. of all virtues is faith. This
The Self and God is in means that God most be the
constant relation to one another, centre of one’s life to fully
as the Self is a part of God, the reach the state of having an
owner of the Self just have to ethical life.
