to defend the painter's actions as moral, arguing that the artistic vision Strickland pursues so single-mindedly calls the painter with such force because it is a "duty to God."
However, this would be based on a faulty reading of Kierkegaard. He adds the following:
I do not enter into relation with God in the duty itself. Thus it is a duty to love one's neighbor; it is a duty in so far as it is referred to God; yet it is not God I come in relation to in the duty but the ne
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