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Moral Agent

A moral agent is a person who can discern right from wrong and is accountable for their actions. Moral agents should avoid causing unjustified harm and have the capacity to freely choose actions considered right or wrong while being aware of moral concepts. Agency refers to an individual's ability to act, and moral agency is the capacity to act as a moral being. Kohlberg's stages of moral development include a preconventional stage where rules are followed to avoid punishment, a conventional stage where rules are followed to maintain relationships, and a postconventional stage where individuals follow self-defined moral principles and question unjust laws.

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Moral Agent

A moral agent is a person who can discern right from wrong and is accountable for their actions. Moral agents should avoid causing unjustified harm and have the capacity to freely choose actions considered right or wrong while being aware of moral concepts. Agency refers to an individual's ability to act, and moral agency is the capacity to act as a moral being. Kohlberg's stages of moral development include a preconventional stage where rules are followed to avoid punishment, a conventional stage where rules are followed to maintain relationships, and a postconventional stage where individuals follow self-defined moral principles and question unjust laws.

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Moral agent

• 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.
• A "moral agent" is therefore someone (or
something) capable of doing things rightly or
wrongly. Typically, this is understood to mean
acting with the ability to freely choose (within
parameters) what to do. It sometimes also
includes the idea of being aware of the
concepts of rightness and wrongness, or of
what actions are considered right and wrong.
• "Agency" is simply the capacity to be an agent,
which means the capacity to do things.
• Moral agency is the capacity to act as an
agent.
• It's something that every moral agent has by
virtue of being one (moral).
Kohlberg’s stages of moral development
• Level 1: Preconventional
• a child’s sense of morality is externally
controlled. Children accept and believe the
rules of authority figures, such as parents and
teachers. A child with pre-conventional
morality has not yet adopted or internalized
society’s conventions regarding what is right or
wrong, but instead focuses largely on external
consequences that certain actions may bring.
• Level 2: Conventional
• Throughout the conventional level, a child’s sense of
morality is tied to personal and societal relationships.
• Children continue to accept the rules of authority
figures, but this is now due to their belief that this is
necessary to ensure positive relationships and
societal order. Adherence to rules and conventions is
somewhat rigid during these stages, and a rule’s
appropriateness or fairness is seldom questioned.
• Level 3: Postconventional
• Throughout the postconventional level, a person’s
sense of morality is defined in terms of more
abstract principles and values. People now believe
that some laws are unjust and should be changed
or eliminated. This level is marked by a growing
realization that individuals are separate entities
from society and that individuals may disobey
rules inconsistent with their own principles.
• Level 3: Postconventional
• Post-conventional moralists live by their own
ethical principles—principles that typically
include such basic human rights as life, liberty,
and justice—and view rules as useful but
changeable mechanisms, rather than absolute
dictates that must be obeyed without
question.

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