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Some humans are not persons and are not owed recognition ... — Carmelics

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Some humans are not persons and are not owed recognition respect.

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1.Recognition respect for persons is grounded in rational capacities for moral agency.
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2.There can be humans in whom these rational capacities are altogether absent.
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1.Membership in the human moral community is grounded in species membership, not individual capacity, as Kant's formula of humanity implies a kind-based status.
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2.Humans who lack current rational capacities still possess the species-typical nature that grounds dignity, making capacity-based exclusion a category error.
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1.Nussbaum's capabilities approach holds that dignity attaches to the flourishing of a human life as a whole, not reducible to the exercise of any single rational capacity.
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2.Denying recognition respect to humans lacking rational capacities commits the same logical error as denying it to sleeping or temporarily incapacitated persons.
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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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Perspectives: 3 (1 for, 2 against)
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