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

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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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    • 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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