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    Christine Korsgaard argues that humanity as an end ground... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Appraisal respect is not the kind of respect required by Kant's Humanity Formula.

    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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    Christine Korsgaard(the author being discussed)
    A contemporary American philosopher known for her work on ethics, identity, and what makes actions right or wrong based on rational principles.
    degrees of actualization(how value-conferring activity can vary among individuals)
    Different levels or amounts to which something can be realized or made real, from potential to fully expressed.
    grounds obligations(what humanity as an end does)
    Provides the fundamental reason or basis for why we have moral duties to act in certain ways.
    humanity as an end(what grounds obligations according to Korsgaard)
    The idea that human beings should be treated as having value in themselves, not just as tools to accomplish other goals.
    rational nature

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    (Used to ground the normative claim that humans ought to align their choices with what this rational nature tends toward.)
    The overarching order or system of which rational beings (humans) are parts, characterized by purposive, goal-directed structure.
    value-conferring activity(what rational nature is the source of)
    Actions or processes that create or assign worth and importance to things in the world.

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