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    A person deserves recognition as an independent being wit... — Carmelics
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    A person deserves recognition as an independent being with ends of his own

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    • 1.A person is in fact an independent being with ends of his own
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    • 2.What a thing is determines what recognition it deserves
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    • 1.Personal identity is a fiction: Hume's bundle theory shows no persistent self exists to ground claims of independent being.
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    • 2.Without a stable self underlying agency, 'ends of one's own' dissolves into momentary desire-bundles deserving no special recognition.
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    • 1.Recognition is always conferred through social relations, not derived from intrinsic properties of isolated individuals (Hegel, Axel Honneth).
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    • 2.What a being deserves is therefore constituted by intersubjective practices, not metaphysical facts about independence or autonomy.
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    A person is constituted by his body and his mind. They are parts or aspects of him. For that very reason, it is fitting that he have primary say over what may be done to them—not because such an arrangement best promotes overall human welfare, but because any arrangement that denied him that say would be a grave indignity. In giving him this authority, morality recognizes his existence as an individual with ends of his own—an independent being. Since that is what he is, he deserves this recognit
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