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...

Agency is the capacity of an actor to act in a given environment. It is independent of the moral dimension, which is called moral agency. In sociology...

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translate moral reasoning into actions, and, as a result, moral agency is exerted. Thus, the moral self is situated in a broader, socio-cognitive self-theory...

Moral patienthood (also called moral patience, moral patiency, and moral status) is the state of being eligible for moral consideration by a moral agent...

Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or...

Moral realism (also ethical realism) is the position that ethical sentences express propositions that refer to objective features of the world (that is...

and biologist Oliver Putz notes that, since chimpanzees are capable of moral agency, it is possible for Christians to understand them as having been made...

and ethics, metaethics is the study of the nature, scope, and meaning of moral judgment. It is one of the three branches of ethics generally studied by...

In economics, a moral hazard is a situation where an economic actor has an incentive to increase its exposure to risk because it does not bear the full...

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...

Agency (also referred to as free agency or moral agency), in the theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), is "the privilege...

Moral particularism is a theory in meta-ethics that runs counter to the idea that moral actions can be determined by applying universal moral principles...

military command and control systems if they are to preserve a commander's moral agency. He drew an analogy between a commander in their command center and the...

pp. 51–59. ISBN 9789048140985. Cunningham, Stanley. Reclaiming Moral Agency: The Moral Philosophy of Albert the Great. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic...

mind – the mens or "ethical core". Women were thus viewed as having the moral agency necessary for shaping society, albeit in roles differing from men. The...

be human, to also satisfy the minimum in rational agency he held necessary for entering the moral plane whatsoever. In any case, German sociologist and...

(alternatively care ethics or EoC) is a normative ethical theory that holds that moral action centers on interpersonal relationships and care or benevolence as...

Notions of that Freedom of Will which is supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, Reward and Punishment, Praise and Blame (1754), reviewed...

appear quite deterministic, while others make room for free will and moral agency. Among the six most studied schools of Hinduism, the theory of karma...

will, fatalism, determinism, and agency. In moral philosophy, autonomy refers to subjecting oneself to objective moral law. Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) defined...

9–27. JSTOR 40015076. Babcock, William S. (1988). "Augustine on Sin and Moral Agency". The Journal of Religious Ethics. 16 (1): 28–55. JSTOR 40015077. Aiello...

In moral philosophy, deontological ethics or deontology (from Greek: δέον, 'obligation, duty' + λόγος, 'study') is the normative ethical theory that the...

been a rational being. Spinoza deducts a strict determinism in which moral agency as a free choice, cannot exist.: 150  In Religion Within the Limits of...

researchers began to study moral agency, its exercise and drivers of moral blindness. In his research, Bandura argued that moral disengagement could arise...

Ethical intuitionism (also called moral intuitionism) is a view or family of views in moral epistemology (and, on some definitions, metaphysics). It is...

cognitivist claim that "moral judgments are capable of being objectively true, because they describe some feature of the world". If moral statements cannot...

considered in most criminal justice systems that non-human animals lack moral agency and so cannot be held culpable for an act. Animals, including insects...

God the Father (Elohim) with Jehovah (the premortal Jesus) championing moral agency but Lucifer (Satan) countered with a plan that abolished individual choice...

A moral panic is a widespread feeling of fear that some evil person or thing threatens the values, interests, or well-being of a community or society...