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

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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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    • 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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