ABSTRACT
Kant and Hegel each thinks of normative statuses as instituted by practical attitudes. Kant’s conception of normative subjects as autonomous is a conception of them as able to bind themselves normatively by their attitudes, to make themselves responsible (acquire an actual normative status) by taking themselves to be responsible (adopting a normative attitude). Hegel’s recognition model of the institution of normative statuses by normative attitudes articulates the idea that other-regarding attitudes of attributing responsibility and authority (holding other normative subjects responsible, taking them to be authoritative) are equally essential to them really being responsible or authoritative (having the statuses of being committed or entitled) as are self-regarding attitudes of acknowledging those statuses.
