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    It is not the case that Recognition respect better captures the kind of respect required by Kant's Humanity Formula than appraisal respect does.

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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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    • 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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