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    Two kinds of self-respect can be distinguished. — Carmelics
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    Two kinds of self-respect can be distinguished.

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    • 1.The notion of self-worth is the organizing motif for self-respect.
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    • 2.In the dominant Western tradition, two kinds of worth are ascribed to persons.
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    • 1.Self-respect is not exhaustively grounded in worth-ascription; Confucian traditions ground self-respect in role-fulfillment and relational harmony, not inherent worth.
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    • 2.A taxonomy derived solely from dominant Western frameworks systematically excludes non-Western conceptions, rendering the two-kind distinction culturally parochial rather than universal.
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    • 1.Rawls's distinction between self-respect as recognizing one's equal moral worth and self-respect as confidence in one's plan of life already suggests these are not two discrete kinds but poles of a single dispositional continuum.
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    • 2.If the two kinds share self-worth as their single 'organizing motif,' the conceptual work distinguishing them is insufficient to establish genuine categorical difference rather than mere variation in degree.
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    Most theorists agree that as there are different kinds of respect, so there are different kinds of self-respect. However, we clearly cannot apply all kinds of respect to ourselves: it makes no sense to talk of directive respect for oneself, for instance, and although one might regard oneself or some of one’s characteristics as obstacles (“I’m my own worst enemy”), this would not generally be considered a form of self-respect. Because the notion of self-worth is the organizing motif for self-resp
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