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It is not the case that 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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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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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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Therefore, genuinely acknowledging personhood and entirely withholding respect cannot coherently coexist as distinct psychological states.
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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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If respect just is the acknowledgment of rational personhood, then acknowledging personhood entails respect by conceptual necessity.
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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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