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    It is not the case that Two kinds of self-respect can be distinguished.

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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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    • 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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