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    It is possible to acknowledge that another being is a person and yet not have or give respect to that being

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    • Respecting a person requires not simply recognizing what they are but emotionally experiencing their value as a person
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    • 1.Strawson's reactive attitudes framework holds that recognizing someone as a full moral agent constitutively involves holding them to the participant stance.
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    • 2.The participant stance toward persons is not separable from basic forms of respect; to withhold it entirely is to demote the being from personhood in practice.
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    • 3.Therefore, genuinely acknowledging personhood and entirely withholding respect cannot coherently coexist as distinct psychological states.
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    • 1.For Kant, respect (Achtung) is a rational recognition of the moral law as embodied in persons, not a separable emotional state.
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    • 2.If respect just is the acknowledgment of rational personhood, then acknowledging personhood entails respect by conceptual necessity.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    Another area of interest has been the connections between respect and other attitudes and emotions, especially love and between respect and virtues such as trust. For example, Kant argues that we have duties of love to others just as we have duties of respect. However, neither the love nor the respect we owe is a matter of feeling (or, is pathological, as Kant says), but is, rather, a duty to adopt a certain kind of maxim, or policy of action: the duty of love is the duty to make the ends of oth
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