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In the informed consent setting, our moral interest in competence stems largely from the moral premium we place upon respect for autonomy — roughly, the capacity of a person to shape his own view of the world, and to choose the ways in which he will participate in the world. This capacity, we believe, renders each person morally special, an initiator of thoughts and actions who can bear responsibility for who he is and what he does. Competence, in turn, ordinarily refers to the extent to which a person actually possesses and can exercise such capacities. He who is in full possession of them is considered to be fully competent ([9], [42], [16]).
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Morreim, E.H. (1991). Competence: At The Intersection of Law, Medicine, and Philosophy. In: Cutter, M.A.G., Shelp, E.E. (eds) Competency. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 39. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3614-3_5
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