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    The fittingness of different pro-attitudes toward differe... — Carmelics
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    The fittingness of different pro-attitudes toward different objects does not show that tropes are not the only bearers of final value

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    • 1.The conclusion that tropes are not the only bearers of final value only follows if we assume that what we direct our evaluative attitude at is indicative of where value is localized
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    • 2.Final value should be understood strictly as the value something has for its own sake
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    • 3.If a person is valuable because of her courage, she is not valuable for her own sake but for the sake of one of her properties (her tropes)
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    • 1.G.E. Moore's principle of organic unities holds that the value of a whole need not equal the sum of its parts' values.
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    • 2.If wholes can have irreducible final value not fully grounded in their constituents, persons can bear final value not reducible to their tropes.
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    • 3.The trope-reductionist account of final value therefore fails to accommodate well-established cases of emergent evaluative wholes.
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    • 1.Kantian ethics grounds the unconditional final value of persons in rational agency as such, not in any particular characterizing property.
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    • 2.If rational agency confers final value on the person as a subject rather than on any trope, fittingness of respect toward persons tracks a non-trope locus of value.
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    • 3.The pro-attitude of respect being owed to persons qua persons thus constitutes genuine evidence that tropes are not the sole bearers of final value.
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    That tropes are the bearers of (final) value is a view held by several trope theorists. To say that what we value are the particular properties of things and persons is prima facie intuitive (Williams 1997 [1953]: 123). And since concrete particulars—but not tropes—are sometimes the subjects of simultaneous yet conflicting evaluations, tropes seem especially suited for the job as (final) value-bearers (Campbell 1997 [1981]: 130–131). That tropes are the only bearers of final value has however be
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