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    Neither the love nor the respect we owe others is a matte... — Carmelics
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    Neither the love nor the respect we owe others is a matter of feeling

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    • 1.Kant holds that the love and respect we owe are duties to adopt a certain kind of maxim or policy of action
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    • 2.The duty of love is the duty to make the ends of others my own
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    • 3.The duty of respect is the duty to not degrade others to the status of mere means to my ends
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    • 1.Aristotle argues that genuine virtue requires not just right action but appropriate emotional responses — acting rightly without feeling rightly is mere continence, not virtue.
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    • 2.If respect and love are virtues rather than merely duties, the affective dimension is constitutive of their moral adequacy, not incidental to it.
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    • 3.A person who respects others only through gritted teeth, feeling contempt internally, fails to instantiate the virtue of respect even if their outward conduct conforms to duty.
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    • 1.Nel Noddings and care ethicists hold that genuine care requires 'engrossment' — an affective attentiveness to the particular other that cannot be reduced to policy adoption.
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    • 2.A maxim-based account of love and respect abstracts away from particularity in a way that severs these attitudes from their proper objects, rendering them morally hollow.
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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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