Respect and Loving Attention

On Kant's view, the feeling of respect is the mark of moral agency, and is peculiar to us, animals endowed with reason. Unlike any other feeling, respect originates in the contemplation of the moral law, that is, the idea of lawful activity. This idea works as a constraint on our deliberation by discounting the pretenses of our natural desires and demoting our selfish maxims. We experience its workings in the guise of respect. Respect shows that from the agent's subjective perspective, morality is the experience of being bound and necessitated, but also of being free and emancipated from inclinations. Respect is a feeling that is generated by the agent's reflection on the nature of her own agency. It is not directed to anybody in particular, but to the very idea of rational agency, which is characterized by self-mastery and self-legislation. Contrary to animals, we do not derive our ends from nature, but we are capable of setting ends of our own, by exercising practical reason, that is, by engaging in the activity of law making

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• Respect and Membership in the Moral Community

  Open Access•Carla Bagnoli•Ethical Theory and Moral Practice•2007

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• Clarissa Dalloway and the Tragedy of Appreciation

  Open Access•Kenneth Walden•European Journal of Philosophy•2026

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• On the Ethics of Interacting

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• The aesthetics of coming to know someone

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• Really Looking and Being Seen

  Sanford Diehl•The Philosophical Review•2026

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• Active Respect and Critical Solidarity

  Roberto Mordacci•Critical Horizons•2024

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• Kant on wonder as the motive to learn

  Open Access•Melissa Zinkin•Journal of Philosophy of Education•2021

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• Seeing More

  Samantha Matherne•Seeing More•2024

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• Kant's Theory of Freedom

  Open Access•Henry E Allison•Kant's Theory of Freedom•1990

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• Immanuel Kant's Moral Theory

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• Ruling Passions

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• Love as a Moral Emotion

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• The Importance of What We Care About

  Open Access•Harry G Frankfurt•Importance of What We Care About•1988

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• Kantian Respect and Particular Persons

  Open Access•Robert Noggle•Canadian Journal of Philosophy•1999

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• Concrete Kantian Respect

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• Creating the Kingdom of Ends

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• Moral Luck

  Open Access•Bernard Williams•Moral Luck•1981

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• Kant's Ethical Thought

  Open Access•Allen W Wood•Kant's Ethical Thought•1999

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• Two Kinds of Respect

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• Respect, Pluralism, and Justice

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• Kant's Virtues

  Onora O’neill, Onora O'Neill•How Should One Live?•1998

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• Love and Respect in the Doctrine of Virtue

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• The Practice of Moral Judgment

  Barbara Herman•The Journal of Philosophy•1985

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• On respecting human beings as persons

  Open Access•Carl F Cranor•The Journal of Value Inquiry•1983

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• Did Kant Respect Persons

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• On the Relation of Pure Reason to Content

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• How moral agents became ghosts or why the history of ethics diverged from that of the philosophy of mind

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• On the Value of Acting from the Motive of Duty

  Barbara Herman•The Philosophical Review•1981

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• Studies in the Philosophy of Kant

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• Kant’s Theory of Moral Sensibility. Respect for the Moral Law and the Influence of Inclination

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• Kant on Moral Feeling

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• Kant's Virtue Ethics

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• I. Kant after Virtue 1

  Onora O’neill, Onora O'Neill•Inquiry•1983

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• Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View

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• Losing Your Concepts

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• Phenomenology of Spirit

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