Morality of Respect

System of obligations that stem from recognition of the authority of rational agents to direct their own lives.

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Warren Quinn
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Distinguished morality of respect from morality of humanity; introduced the radio man example.

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Once More, Without Feeling (Mogensen 2025)
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The working paper itself, presenting a pluralist theory of moral standing and arguing that autonomy can ground moral standing without welfare subjectivity.

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Morality of Humanityconcept0.824
System of obligations concerned with promoting others' welfare.
Moral Worthconcept0.767
Moral Standingconcept0.760
The property of mattering morally in one's own right, meriting concern and respect.
How Can We Gauge Moral Responsibility And Ourquestion0.759
Moral Patienthoodconcept0.748
The status of mattering morally for one's own sake; having interests that generate duties for others.
Moral Statusconcept0.736
The property of being an entity whose interests matter in their own right, not merely as tools of humans
Morality is about making people happy, not making happy people.quote0.736
Narveson's person-affecting slogan, central to the discussion of whether we have duties to create super-beneficiaries
How Can Humans Extend Moral Consideration And Carequestion0.734