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    To respect persons is not to pursue or promote them but t... — Carmelics
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    To respect persons is not to pursue or promote them but to value them as unconditionally valuable beings.

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    • 1.Acting for the sake of persons as ends in themselves means valuing them for what they are, not using them instrumentally.
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    • 2.Respect acknowledges constraints on our treatment of persons rather than goals to be advanced.
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    • 1.Singer and utilitarian beneficence traditions hold that failing to promote persons' welfare when we can constitutes a moral failure equal to active harm.
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    • 2.If persons have unconditional value, then maximizing their flourishing is a stronger expression of that value than merely refraining from using them.
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    • 3.Kant's own duties of beneficence in the Metaphysics of Morals require positive promotion of others' ends, not merely non-interference.
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    • 1.Nel Noddings and care ethics argue respect-as-constraint models persons as atomistic rights-bearers, neglecting the relational constitution of personhood.
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    • 2.Genuinely valuing persons as relational beings requires actively sustaining the conditions—emotional, social, material—in which their agency can develop.
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    To act for the sake of persons as ends in themselves, to respect them, is not to pursue or promote them, but to value them as the unconditionally valuable beings they are. It is also to acknowledge that there are constraints on our treatment of persons, for to be an end in itself is also to be a limit--just as the end of the road puts a limit on our travels, so an end in itself puts an absolute limit on the subjective ends we may set, the means we may use to pursue them, and, very importantly, o
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