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    If rational agency confers final value on the person as a... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The fittingness of different pro-attitudes toward different objects does not show that tropes are not the only bearers of final value

    If rational agency confers final value on the person as a subject rather than on any trope, fittingness of respect toward persons tracks a non-trope locus of value.

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    • 1.Respect toward persons systematically differs from respect toward their properties or actions, suggesting a unified locus of value.
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    • 2.Rational agency constitutes an integrated capacity of the whole person, not reducible to separable tropes or attributes.
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    • 3.Moral duties to persons persist across changes in their tropes, implying value attaches to something non-tropic and enduring.
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    • 1.Respect tracks multiple distinct valuable tropes (autonomy, rationality, dignity), not a single non-tropic entity beneath them.
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    • 2.Persons as subjects are themselves best analyzed as bundles or continuants of tropes rather than non-tropic substrates.
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    • 3.The fittingness of respect can be fully explained by relations among valuable tropes without positing a separate locus.
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