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A moral agent is a person who has the ability to discern right from wrong and to be held accountable for his or her own actions. Moral agents have a moral responsibility not to cause unjustified harm. Traditionally, moral agency is assigned only to those who can be held responsible for their actions. Children, and adults with certain mental ...
- Agente Moral
Un agente moral es una persona que tiene la capacidad de...
- Moral Absolutism
Moral absolutism asserts that there are certain universal...
- Moral Psychology
Moral psychology is the study of moral identity development,...
- Moral Equilibrium
Moral compensation and moral licensing are the two...
- Subject of Moral Worth
People are always considered subjects of moral worth. A...
- Moral Imagination
Moral imagination, according to philosopher Mark Johnson,...
- Moral Reasoning
Moral reasoning typically applies logic and moral theories,...
- Moral Relativism
Meta-ethical moral relativism states that there are no...
- Agente Moral
Oct 16, 2019 · Attributionists take moral responsibility assessments to be concerned with whether an action (omission, character trait, or belief) is attributable to an agent for the purposes of moral assessment, where this usually means that the action (or omission, etc.) reflects the agent’s “judgment sensitive attitudes” (Scanlon 1998), “evaluative judgments” (A. Smith 2005), or, more generally ...
Jan 6, 2001 · A comprehensive theory of moral responsibility would elucidate the following: (1) the concept, or idea, of moral responsibility itself; (2) the criteria for being a moral agent, i.e., one who qualifies generally as an agent open to responsibility ascriptions (e.g., only beings possessing the general capacity to evaluate reasons for acting can ...
Article Summary. Moral agents are those agents expected to meet the demands of morality. Not all agents are moral agents. Young children and animals, being capable of performing actions, may be agents in the way that stones, plants and cars are not. But though they are agents they are not automatically considered moral agents.
Moral agents. By. Haksar, Vinit. DOI. 10.4324/9780415249126-L049-1. 2. Understanding. The view that moral agents must have the capacity to conform to some of the external demands of morality is consistent with the view that there are parts of morality that they cannot conform to. Thus kleptomaniacs do not have the capacity to conform to certain ...
Moral responsibility. In philosophy, moral responsibility is the status of morally deserving praise, blame, reward, or punishment for an act or omission in accordance with one's moral obligations. [1][2] Deciding what (if anything) counts as "morally obligatory" is a principal concern of ethics. Philosophers refer to people who have moral ...
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This video introduces the general ethics concepts of moral agent and subject of moral worth. A moral agent is capable of acting with reference to right and wrong, and has the power to intentionally cause harm to another. A subject of moral worth is anything that can be harmed. To learn about related general ethics concepts, watch Fundamental ...
