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    Persons can be differentially evaluated and valued for th... — Carmelics
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    Persons can be differentially evaluated and valued for their particular qualities, accomplishments, merit, or usefulness.

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    • 1.The equality of all rational beings concerns recognition respect, not every form of valuation.
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    • 2.Differential valuation must always be constrained by the moral requirement to accord recognition respect to persons as ends in themselves.
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    • 1.Kant's Formula of Humanity prohibits treating persons merely as means, but differential valuation by merit structurally reduces persons to their instrumental properties.
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    • 2.When appraisal respect tracks accomplishments rather than rational agency, the evaluative gaze constitutes persons as bundles of qualities rather than as ends in themselves.
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    • 3.Recognition respect and appraisal respect cannot be cleanly partitioned because the habitual practice of differential valuation shapes the moral perceiver's fundamental orientation toward persons.
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    • 1.Egalitarian relational ethics, as developed by Elizabeth Anderson, grounds equal standing not in merit or achievement but in the constitutive norms of democratic community.
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    • 2.Differential valuation by accomplishment or usefulness presupposes a ranking authority whose legitimacy is itself morally contestable within a community of equals.
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    • 3.A practice of meritocratic appraisal systematically disadvantages those whose capacities were shaped by unjust circumstances, making the valuations track social fortune rather than genuine desert.
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    There are several important consequences of the Kantian view of the scope of moral recognition respect for persons as persons. First, while all normally functioning human beings possess the rational capacities that ground recognition respect, there can be humans in whom these capacities are altogether absent and who therefore, on this view, are not persons and are not owed respect. Second, these capacities could, in principle, be possessed by beings who are not biologically human, and such being
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