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    Appraisal respect is not the kind of respect required by Kant's Humanity Formula.

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    • 1.Appraisal respect involves positively appraising someone in light of an achievement or virtue relative to some standard of success.
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    • 2.Appraisal respect varies from person to person based on their measured achievements.
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    • 3.Treating something as an end-in-itself does not permit respect that varies based on differential achievement.
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    • 1.Darwall's own account distinguishes recognition respect from appraisal respect, but Kant's Formula of Humanity requires a specific form of recognition respect grounded in rational agency, not a blanket exclusion of appraisal.
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    • 2.Recognizing degrees of moral virtue or rational achievement in persons is compatible with treating each person's humanity as an inviolable end, since the latter concerns a threshold property, not a scalar one.
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    • 3.Kant himself distinguishes respect for the moral law from respect for persons, suggesting appraisal of moral worth can coexist with unconditional recognition of humanity as an end.
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    • 1.Christine Korsgaard argues that humanity as an end grounds obligations not because rational nature is uniform across persons but because it is the source of all value-conferring activity, which admits of degrees of actualization.
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    • 2.If appraisal respect tracks the degree to which a person actualizes their rational nature, it is not incompatible with the Humanity Formula but rather expresses a richer engagement with what that formula protects.
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    Finally, Kant’s Humanity Formula requires “respect” for the humanity in persons. Proper regard for something with absolute value or worth requires respect for it. But this can invite misunderstandings. One way in which we respect persons, termed “appraisal respect” by Stephen Darwall (1977), is clearly not the same as the kind of respect required by the Humanity Formula: I may respect you as a rebounder but not a scorer, or as a researcher but not as a teacher. When I respect you in this way, I
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