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    Challenges→Recognition respect better captures the kind of respect required by Kant's Humanity Formula than appraisal respect does.

    Because rational agency is itself a normatively loaded capacity that can be exercised well or poorly, respecting it necessarily involves an evaluative judgment about its presence and exercise.

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    Normatively loaded(as used in metaethics)
    Carrying built-in judgments about what is good, right, or the way things should be—rather than being neutral or purely factual.
    Respecting (in philosophical sense)(as used in ethics)
    Treating someone or something as having value and importance by acknowledging and honoring what makes them worthy of consideration.
    capacity(Theory of capacity)
    A subject's ability to make decisions, assessed by paradigm examples and the presence of necessary (and possibly sufficient) abilities.
    evaluative judgment(Watson 1975 distinguishes evaluative judgment from preference)
    Thinking of something as good, worthy, and requiring defense; distinct from merely having a preference
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    (Kantian account of autonomy)
    A mode of operation that can only function by seeking to be the first cause of its actions.

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