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    It is not the case that Neither the love nor the respect we owe others is a matter of feeling

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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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    • 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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