What is your answer?
To be a person is
{ 1 } - to have a body.
{ 2 } - to have a need and capacity for intelligent freedom.
{ 3 } - not characteristic of every human.
{ 4 } - to exhibit a personality.
{ 5 } - to function with intelligent freedom at all times.
<= back | menu | forward =>
Directions: Click on a number from 1 to 5.
1 is wrong. Please try again.
To be a person is
{ 1 } - to have a body.
{ 2 } - to have a need and capacity for intelligent freedom.
{ 3 } - not characteristic of every human.
{ 4 } - to exhibit a personality.
{ 5 } - to function with intelligent freedom at all times.
No, according to the authors, all humans are persons, but not all persons are humans. God, for example, is a person according to them, but He does not have a body.
<= back | menu | forward =>
2 is correct!
To be a person is
{ 1 } - to have a body.
{ 2 } - to have a need and capacity for intelligent freedom.
{ 3 } - not characteristic of every human.
{ 4 } - to exhibit a personality.
{ 5 } - to function with intelligent freedom at all times.
See p. 5.
<= back | menu | forward =>
Before continuing, you might try some wrong answers.
3 is wrong. Please try again.
To be a person is
{ 1 } - to have a body.
{ 2 } - to have a need and capacity for intelligent freedom.
{ 3 } - not characteristic of every human.
{ 4 } - to exhibit a personality.
{ 5 } - to function with intelligent freedom at all times.
The authors think that we are persons even when not exercising our intelligent freedom and so have the rights due to a person. Thus an infant or sleeping person cannot be killed with the excuse that it is human but not a person. See p. 6.
<= back | menu | forward =>
4 is wrong. Please try again.
To be a person is
{ 1 } - to have a body.
{ 2 } - to have a need and capacity for intelligent freedom.
{ 3 } - not characteristic of every human.
{ 4 } - to exhibit a personality.
{ 5 } - to function with intelligent freedom at all times.
A personality is an expression of personhood. People who are asleep or comatose do not necessarily exhibit personality, yet they are persons.
<= back | menu | forward =>
5 is wrong. Please try again.
To be a person is
{ 1 } - to have a body.
{ 2 } - to have a need and capacity for intelligent freedom.
{ 3 } - not characteristic of every human.
{ 4 } - to exhibit a personality.
{ 5 } - to function with intelligent freedom at all times.
No, humans obviously do not function with intelligent freedom when they are asleep, yet they are still persons with rights. All that is required for personhood is the potentiality or capacity for intelligent freedom, not its actualization.
<= back | menu | forward =>
the end