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Pufendorf’s Theory of Moral Duties in Natural Law Ethics - An Interpretative Study of Pufendorf’s On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to Natural Law -

Cho,Kwan-Sung 1

1경인교육대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper is an interpretative study of the first book of Pufendorf’s On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to Natural Law, and has the following two purposes in view. First it aims to bring out Pufendorf’s natural law ethics which is based on his understanding of embodied human being as Animal Sociabile (or Rationabile) and as Animal Sociale (or Rationale) by giving a detailed account of Pufendorf’s theory of material moral duties from the moral philosophical and the moral psychological standpoints. Second it purports to make it clear that the implicit and explicit influences of Pufendorf’s theory of material moral duties on Kant’s ethical theory of formal moral duties can be ascertained in Kant’s moral philosophical works, and that Pufendorf’s natural law ethics and Kant’s deontological ethics have in regard to the universal core moral duties to oneself and others and the conception of triple motivational factors (i.e. animal instinctive self-interest, enlightened rational self-interest and universal free reason) a great deal in common.

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