Asked by Nuowen Gleeson on Sep 27, 2024

Mary Anne Warren offers which of the following traits as essential for the concept of personhood or humanity in the moral sense?

A) consciousness and the capacity to feel pain
B) reasoning skills and the ability to solve problems
C) self-motivated activity
D) all of these choices

Personhood

The quality or condition of being considered an individual person, especially in legal or ethical contexts.

Moral Sense

Refers to an individual's ability to distinguish right from wrong and to feel empathy or guilt, often considered innate to human nature.

Consciousness

The state or quality of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within oneself.

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