A person is a being who has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts.
An abstract painting of a person by Paul Klee. The concept of a person can be very challenging to define.
What does it take for individuals to persist from moment to moment – or in other words, for the same individual to exist at different moments?
Personhood is the status of being a person. Defining personhood is a controversial topic in philosophy and law and is closely tied with legal and political concepts of citizenship, equality, and liberty. According to law, only a legal person has rights, protections, privileges, responsibilities, and legal liability.
Personhood protest in front of the United States Supreme Court
Am I not a man emblem used during the campaign to abolish slavery