Full Idea
A person is a subject which is aware of its subjectivity, for as a person, I am completely for myself: the person is the individuality of freedom in pure being-for-itself.
Gist of Idea
A person is a being which is aware of its own self-directed and free subjectivity
Source
Georg W.F.Hegel (Elements of the Philosophy of Right [1821], 035 add)
Book Reference
Hegel,Georg W.F.: 'Elements of the Philosophy of Right', ed/tr. Wood,Allen W. [CUP 1991], p.68
A Reaction
Sartre's being 'pour-soi'. Presumably the freedom is for action as well as thought. He ignores Spinoza's claim that such freedom is just an illusion.
Related Idea
Idea 22779 The good is realised freedom [Hegel]