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Even regarding humans, there is a question of scope: Are all humans owed respect?
The idea that all persons are owed respect has been applied in a wide variety of contexts.
Central to Kant's ethical theory is the claim that all persons are owed respect just because they are persons, that is, free rational beings.
Consequently, one question an account of respect for persons has to address is: Who or what are persons that are owed respect?
Other philosophical discussions have been concerned with clarifying the nature of the respect that is owed to persons and of the persons that are owed respect.
Much philosophical work has been done, particularly in environmental ethics, to determine the practical implications of the claim that things other than persons are owed respect (e.g., Schmidtz 2011, Bognar 2011, Connolly 2006, Wiggins 2000, Westra 1989).
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"To the living, we owe respect," Mr Guy said.
We owe respect to the living; to the dead we owe only truth.
The obligation can be described along the following lines (Baier 1981; Meyer 2005, chs. 4 and 5; Thompson 2009): those currently alive owe respect to highly valuable goods that their predecessors bequeathed to them as well as to more remote future people, and they also owe respect to the highly valuable future-oriented projects of their contemporaries.
Usually the temptress is the daughter or wife of a lord to whom the knight owes respect, and the knight is tested to see whether or not he will remain chaste in trying circumstances.
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