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    Even the most vicious persons deserve basic respect as pe... — Carmelics
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    Even the most vicious persons deserve basic respect as persons with humanity.

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    • 1.Persons cannot lose their humanity by their misdeeds.
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    • 2.Respect for the humanity in persons is owed simply because they are persons.
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    • 1.Humanity, as Kant defines it, is the capacity for rational self-governance; persistent vicious willing can constitute a practical abandonment of this capacity.
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    • 2.What cannot be exercised or is chronically suppressed by one's own choices cannot serve as the unconditional ground for the same respect owed to active rational agents.
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    • 3.Therefore, radical moral corruption may attenuate rather than preserve the Kantian basis for full personal respect.
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    • 1.Aristotle and the virtue ethics tradition hold that character is constituted through habituated choices, making moral status genuinely responsive to one's volitional history.
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    • 2.A being who has systematically degraded their own rational and social capacities through vice has thereby altered the morally relevant features that ground claims to respect.
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    • 3.Respect proportioned to the dignity one sustains through virtuous self-cultivation is more coherent than unconditional respect abstracted from all actual moral achievement.
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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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    What cannot be exercised or is chronically suppressed by one's own choices canno...
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