Recognizing degrees of moral virtue or rational achievement in persons is compatible with treating each person's humanity as an inviolable end, since the latter concerns a threshold property, not a scalar one.
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Something someone accomplishes through using their thinking and reasoning skills well.
Scalar property(as used in logic and metaphysics)
A quality that comes in different degrees or amounts, like height or intelligence—something can have more or less of it.
Threshold property(as used in logic and metaphysics)
A quality that something either has or doesn't have, with no in-between—like being pregnant (you either are or aren't), rather than coming in different amounts.
moral virtue(Nicomachean Ethics 1107a1)
A disposition to choose actions lying in the mean relative to the agent, determined by reason; it belongs to the part of the soul that can obey reason rather than the part that reasons itself.