Two popular views are prima facie incompatible. First is Attributivism, whereby there is nothing better than being a good member of one's kind; second is Hierarchy, whereby being one kind of thing can be, ceteris paribus, worse than being another. The unchallenged assumption is that those two views are at odds. As both are plausible and influential, that they conflict is a problem. In this paper, I argue that they are not incompatible, and that appearances to the contrary owe to a naïve view of kinds and kindhood, held by participants on both sides of the debate. Once we adopt a more sophisticated view of kindhood, the apparent incompatibility dissolves. Here I present such a view, and argue that Hierarchy can be captured within Attributivism, when candidate kinds share characteristic features which produce overlapping requirements of self‐maintenance.

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比较苹果和橘子；做人比没有人更好？

两种流行的观点是表面相矛盾的。首先是归因主义，没有什么比成为一个好的成员更好了。第二个是层次结构，即一种事物，比其他事物更糟。毫无挑战的假设是，这两种观点是矛盾的。由于两者都是合理且有影响力的，因此它们之间的冲突是一个问题。在本文中，我认为它们不是这是不相容的，而相反的出现是由于辩论双方的参与者对天真和善良的看法。一旦我们对友善提出了更为复杂的看法，显然的不兼容性就会消失。在这里，我提出这样一种观点，并争辩说，当候选者类别具有共同产生自我维持要求重叠的特征时，就可以在归因主义中捕捉等级制度。