moral agent
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moral
adjective
uk/ˈmɒr.əl/us/ˈmɔːr.əl/
relating to the standards of good or bad behaviour, fairness, honesty, etc. that each person believes in, rather than ...
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agent
noun[C]
uk/ˈeɪ.dʒənt/us/ˈeɪ.dʒənt/
a person who acts for or ...
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(Definition ofmoralandagentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmoral agent
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And let's suppose that everymoralagentin every ideal world has significant freedom.
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Even a tragic choice between conflicting values was regarded by him as the crux of one's identity and dignity as amoralagent.
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To have moral virtue one must be amoralagent, the sort of being exemplifying agency, and intentional action.
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The idealworld thesis is consistent with the position that in some worlds everymoralagentgoes wrong.
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Simple cases, in which amoralagentmeets a need, are the bread and butter of everyday moral practice.
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Others have recommended more focus in healthcare ethics on virtues and the character of themoralagent.
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The central idea of the personification project is that it must be possible to see the political community as amoralagent.
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Speaking colloquially, one might say that natural duties are those that "naturally" bind all of us or that "naturally" accompany being amoralagent.
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They can, of course, make "a new act" by committing themselves to caring for a child who cannot become an independentmoralagent.
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He would have the sort of self-sufficiency and completeness that mystics admire but also be a suitable object of communion for the theisticmoralagent.
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But perhaps the assumption of significant freedom alone evinces the claim that eachmoralagentmight go wrong with respect to each action she performs.
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It is also consistent with the position that everymoralagentgoes entirely wrong in some world or other.
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Someone who does not understand that non-contingent needs impose moral demands does not understand what it is to be amoralagent.
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Each is amoralagentconcerned not only for its immediate self-interest but also with the preservation and well-being of the corporate entity.
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Linking moral responsibility and self-determination focuses our attention on the character of themoralagentand emphasizes the importance of virtue in individual self-determination.
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Let an ideal world be any possible world in which everymoralagentperforms only permissible actions.
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To be is to have needs; to be amoralagentis to recognize this and to be responsive to it in appropriate contexts.
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Amoralagentmeeting a needing being is an especially clear and central case of a simple moral context.
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In the former case the obligations are to the person as amoralagentand as an employee, not as a professional. 23.
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Obligation is assumed in any words or actions of amoralagentthat are sufficient to mark her intention as assuming that obligation.
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