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'''Moral agency''' is a [[person]]'s responsibility for making moral [[judgments]] and taking [[actions]] that comport with morality. A Moral '''agent''' is "a [[being]] who is capable of acting with reference to right and wrong" [1]

'''Moral agency''' is a [[person]]'s responsibility for making moral [[judgments]] and taking [[actions]] that comport with morality. A Moral '''agent''' is "a [[being]] who is capable of acting with reference to right and wrong" [1]

Many philosophers, such as the Kant, view [[morality]] as a transaction among [[rational]] parties, i.e., among '''moral agents'''. For this reason, they would exclude other animals from moral consideration. Others, such as Utilitarian philosophers like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham Jeremy Bentham] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer Peter Singer] have argued the key to inclusion in the moral [[community]] is not rationality — for if it were, we might have to exclude some disabled people and infants, and might also have to distinguish between the degrees of rationality of healthy adults — but the real object of moral action is the avoidance of [[suffering]].

Many philosophers, such as the Kant, view [[morality]] as a transaction among [[rational]] parties, i.e., among '''moral agents'''. For this reason, they would exclude other animals from moral consideration. Others, such as Utilitarian philosophers like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham Jeremy Bentham] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer Peter Singer] have argued the key to inclusion in the moral [[community]] is not rationality — for if it were, we might have to exclude some disabled people and infants, and might also have to distinguish between the degrees of rationality of healthy adults — but the real object of moral action is the avoidance of [[suffering]].

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==Notes==

==Notes==

!. Websters Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

!. Websters Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

[[Category: Philosophy]]

[[Category: Philosophy]]