The philosopher Immanuel Kant understood respecting persons as fulfilling five duties toward them: fidelity, gratitude, reparation, beneficence, and nonmaleficence.

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Immanuel Kant's philosophy emphasizes duties such as the categorical imperative and treating people as ends in themselves, but the specific duties of fidelity, gratitude, reparation, beneficence, and nonmaleficence are more closely associated with the ethical theory of W.D. Ross, not Kant.

The Philosopher Immanuel Kant Understood Respecting Persons as Fulfilling Five