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    STUDIA PHILOSOPHIA - Issue no. 2 / 2015  
         
  Article:   WHAT IS IT TO BE A PERSON?.

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  Abstract:  I 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.

Key words: Person, Reflexive self-consciousness, Criterialism, First potentialities, Second potentialities
 
         
     
         
         
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