"[The concept of a person] designates a human individual to which an open-ended list of mental and material predicates, which mutually imply each other, can be applied. This shows an original relation from the concept of a person to the notion of nature, which makes it justifiable, and indeed mandatory, to respect as a person any individual which has the active potency to develop the traits which justify a human individual’s claim for personal protection."
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Ludger Honnefelder, The concept of a person in moral philosophy, in K. Bayertz (ed.), Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity, Kluwer, Dordrecht-Boston-London 1996, p. 156. , OCLC 1012439076.
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