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    Supports→The ideal observer theory of moral judgments fails to constitute the intrinsic worth of a person

    If ideal observer approval were constitutive of worth, persons would lack worth prior to being observed, which contradicts the unconditional nature of dignity Kant articulates in the Groundwork.

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    Groundwork(history of philosophy)
    Kant's short but famous 1785 book where he explains his theory of morality and argues that all moral duties come from reason.
    Ideal observer approval(as used in ethics to define what makes things worthwhile)
    The idea that something is good or valuable because a perfectly wise, informed, and impartial observer would approve of it.
    Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
    constitutive of(as used in metaphysics)
    Something that is essential to making something what it is—if you remove it, the thing is no longer that thing.

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    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.
    unconditional(Contrasted with the conditional, which is finite and determinate.)
    That which is omnipresent, omnitemporal, and indeterminate.
    worth(as what Nietzsche supposedly measures by self-interest)
    The value or importance of something—how good or meaningful it is.

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