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    Recognition respect better captures the kind of respect r... — Carmelics
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    Recognition respect better captures the kind of respect required by Kant's Humanity Formula than appraisal respect does.

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    • 1.Recognition respect is given because of who or what someone is, not based on measuring up to a standard of assessment.
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    • 2.Recognition respect is not a matter of degree.
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    • 3.Kant's Humanity Formula requires respecting human beings simply because they are persons, not insofar as they have met some standard of evaluation.
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    • 1.Kant's own texts distinguish between the dignity of morally worthy agents and those who violate the moral law, suggesting respect admits of moral gradation.
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    • 2.In the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant argues that vicious persons forfeit their claim to certain expressions of respect, implying appraisal is integral to his account.
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    • 3.If recognition respect were wholly divorced from appraisal, Kant's repeated insistence on the moral worth conferred by acting from duty would be normatively inert.
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    • 1.Stephen Darwall's own distinction concedes that recognition respect for persons presupposes a prior appraisal of the property—rational agency—that grounds that respect.
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    • 2.Because rational agency is itself a normatively loaded capacity that can be exercised well or poorly, respecting it necessarily involves an evaluative judgment about its presence and exercise.
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    • 3.A respect that is entirely non-appraisive cannot explain why Kant treats the corrupted will as an object of moral contempt while still possessing dignity.
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    Finally, Kant’s Humanity Formula requires “respect” for the humanity in persons. Proper regard for something with absolute value or worth requires respect for it. But this can invite misunderstandings. One way in which we respect persons, termed “appraisal respect” by Stephen Darwall (1977), is clearly not the same as the kind of respect required by the Humanity Formula: I may respect you as a rebounder but not a scorer, or as a researcher but not as a teacher. When I respect you in this way, I
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