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Enlightenment morality is true.” Here, she purports to accomplish what many take to be the defining aim of moral philosophy. If you think that what philosophers do is to try to construct non-question-begging, valid arguments for their positions, then it seems a moral philosopher would have to aim to reason to moral convictions. Korsgaard’s argument comes closer to accomplishing this ambitious aim than any other of which I am aware.  \nBut I want to consider whether we can argue to moral convictions at all, whether anything would count as the sort of vindication of morality’s authority that this conception of moral philosophy seeks. I agree that human beings are valuable. In fact I think that each of us has the sort of value beyond price that Kant calls dignity. And I agree that what Korsgaard calls “enlightenment morality,” an overriding requirement to treat each person in accord with this value, is authoritative for us. We have sufficient reason for affirming these things and acting from these convictions and failing to do so would be wrong. But I don’t think that we can arrive at the attitudes constituting these commitments just through argument or reasoning. Moreover, the idea that we can, and the attendant thought that we have a rational obligation to try, carries certain moral dangers. I will argue that this way of thinking of the warrant for our moral commitments is itself in tension with these commitments.  \nOn my view, then, we have sufficient reasons for, but cannot reason to, central moral commitments. But if we cannot reason to our moral commitments, cannot vindicate them with philosophical argument, what does it mean to have reasons for them, and what could make it the case that we do? I will argue that  \nKyla Ebels-Duggan, Learning from Love: Reasoning, Respect, and the Value of a Person In: Rethinking the Value of Humanity. Edited by: Sarah Buss and L. NandiTheunissen, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2023.  \nDOI: 10. 1093/oso/9780197539361.003.0015  \nDownloaded from [https://academic.oup.com/book/45417/chapter/389405322 by UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH user on](https://academic.oup.com/book/45417/chapter/389405322 by UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH user on) 18 April 2023  \n338 Rethinking the Value of Humanity  \nwe can make progress on these questions by thinking about love. Contemporary moral philosophers often treat interpersonal love as in presumptive conflict with a distinctively moral attitude or outlook. The tension arises insofar as morality demands impartial regard for everyone, while love requires partiality toward those whom we love. Considered this way the philosophical task becomes either protecting the moral demand against the encroachments of personal attachment or protecting the integrity of interpersonal relationships against the demands of an impersonal moral law.1 But important ethical traditions have always placed love at the very center of the moral life. The biblical tradition, for example, presents love of God and of one’s neighbor as the most fundamental moral demand, the summary of the law.2 Here I join a small but growing group of contemporary moral philosophers who endorse a view in this spirit.3  \nI will argue that three sorts of experiences can reveal to us the value of other human beings, the value to which morality responds: love for particular individuals; singular respect, an experience structurally similar to love; and witness of the love of others. In Section 1, I argue that our experience of love gives us insight into the value of individuals. It discloses the content of the concept of the value of h","cbCaibUlQwjv7g0D","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibUlQwjv7g0D","pdf",432796,29,"English","# Learning from Love: Reasoning, Respect, and the Value of a Person\n## Core moral question: can we reason to moral convictions?\n## Love as a route to the value of persons\n## Structure of the argument and section plan\n## Section 1: the value of individuals via love","[{\"question\":\"Why does the author question the idea that we can reason our way to moral convictions?\",\"answer\":\"The author argues that although we have sufficient reasons to affirm moral commitments, the attitudes constituting those commitments cannot be arrived at purely through argument or reasoning. 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