If dignity were entirely insensitive to moral conduct, the Kantian notion that treating persons as ends-in-themselves imposes obligations on the agent would lose its normative force.
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Treating persons as ends-in-themselves(as a key ethical principle)
Respecting people as valuable on their own terms, not merely as tools or means to achieve something else; a core idea from Kant.
dignity(Schiller's aesthetic framework contrasting dignity with grace)
The sensible expression of successfully willing to act in accordance with moral principles even at the cost of the suppression of conflicting desires and feelings, manifest in different aspects of appearance than grace.
normative force(Used to describe what Korsgaard's account aims to explain)
The property in virtue of which an agent's reasons are binding on the agent.