WHAT IS IT TO BE A PERSON?

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dc.coverageSTUDIA UBB PHILOSOPHIA, LX, No. 2, 2015 (p. 19-40)en-US
dc.creatorTAHMASBI, Mohammad Reza
dc.date2015-08-28
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-21T10:40:23Z
dc.descriptionI will deal with the synchronic question of persons to clarify the necessary and sufficient conditions for being a person. Having reflexive self-consciousness is both the necessary and sufficient conditions for being a person. I discuss the relationship between having reflexive self-consciousness and the other properties which uniquely belong to persons ‘i.e.,’ being a moral agent, being a rational agent and having free will. A problem arises when one defines a person based on having reflexive self-consciousness. “Is a sleeping human being still a person?” To resolve the problem, I will appeal to Aristotle’s distinction between first and second potentialities.en-US
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dc.identifierhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/5855
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14637/1222
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherBabeș-Bolyai University / Cluj University Pressen-US
dc.relationhttps://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/5855/5543
dc.rightsCopyright (c) 2015 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophiaen-US
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en-US
dc.sourceStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophia; Volume 60, No. 2, August 2015; 19-40en-US
dc.source2065-9407
dc.subjectPerson, Reflexive self-consciousness, Criterialism, First potentialities, Second potentialitiesen-US
dc.titleWHAT IS IT TO BE A PERSON?en-US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.typePeer-reviewed Articleen-US
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