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The cosmos of course includes everything, the individual as well as his particular society and the whole of humanity, and also every species of entity and not just human beings. Thus when we address ourselves to the question of man’s relation to the cosmos we may have several quite different things in mind. We might have in mind a direct relation to the cosmos as a whole without regard to the intermediate levels of the ethical integrative species or we might have in mind his relation to the cosmos through the various grades of obligation, first to himself, then to his society, next to his species, and finally to all species.
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R. Dubos, Humanistic Biology American Scientist, 53, 4–19, 1965.
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© 1967 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Feibleman, J.K. (1967). The Ethics of Man in Relation to the Cosmos. In: Moral Strategy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9321-4_22
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