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    Human beings have a natural duty towards society and the cosmic order, not only towards themselves.

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    • 1.Human beings have a particular innate character or natural disposition that assigns them a specific place within society.
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    • 2.Human beings relate to society as organs relate to the body — each part has a function necessary for the whole to function well.
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    • 3.Fulfilling one's specific natural role contributes to the proper functioning of society and the happiness of the cosmic order.
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    • 1.Individual rational autonomy is the ground of moral obligation, making duties self-legislated rather than cosmically assigned (Kant, Groundwork).
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    • 2.A duty derived from natural role or cosmic order cannot bind a rational agent who has not consented to that order's normative authority.
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    • 3.Obligations grounded in natural teleology commit the naturalistic fallacy by deriving 'ought' from facts about biological or cosmic function (Hume, Treatise III.i).
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    • 1.Hobbes demonstrates that pre-social humans have no natural duties to others, only natural rights of self-preservation in a state of nature.
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    • 2.Social duties arise exclusively from voluntary covenant, not from innate disposition or cosmic function, making them contingent rather than natural.
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    At this point, the second aspect mentioned above, i.e., the “innate character that is particular to each [individual] and to each group” must be further elucidated (cf. the first quote in this section). Human beings, as noted before, have the same relationship to society as organs to the body. Owing to their particular “innate character” or specific natural disposition, they hold a particular natural place within the ‘organism society’, with a specific ergon they ought to perform, so that the en
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