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Ideas of Mary Anne Warren, by Text

[American, 1946 - 2010, Professor at San Francisco State University.]

1973 On the Moral and Legal State of Abortion
p.55 p.192 Persons must be conscious, reasoning, motivated, communicative, self-aware
     Full Idea: Suggested characteristics of personhood: consciousness (esp. of pain); reasoning and problem solving; self-motivated activity; varied communication on many topics; self-concepts and self-awareness.
     From: report of Mary Anne Warren (On the Moral and Legal State of Abortion [1973], p.55) by Tuckness,A/Wolf,C - This is Political Philosophy 8 'Standing'
     A reaction: [a 'famous' article] A number of non-human animals come very close to passing these tests. I suspect the complex communication is only in there to disqualify them from getting the full certificate. (But she wrote on animal rights).