Concept

Moral agency

Overview

Moral agency is an individual's ability to make moral choices based on some notion of right and wrong and to be held accountable for these actions. A moral agent is "a being who is capable of acting with reference to right and wrong."

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Moral agency

• Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)
• P. F. Strawson
• Roy Bhaskar
• David S. Oderberg

Related ideas

• Noumenon
• Philosophy
• Immanuel Kant
• Punishment
• Law
• Peter Singer
• Utilitarianism
• Moral responsibility
• Compatibilism
• Reason
• Morality
• Jeremy Bentham
• Free will
• Determinism
• Rationality
• Ethics
• ScienceDirect

Place in the tradition

Part of Consequentialism.

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