Mary Anne Warren offers which of the following traits as essential for the concept of personhood or humanity in the moral sense?

a) consciousness and the capacity to feel pain
b) reasoning skills and the ability to solve problems
c) self-motivated activity
d) all of these choices


d) all of these choices

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In terms of the philosophical legitimacy of democracy, a major role of voting is ____

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