Ability to make ethical judgements
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.[1] A moral agent is "a being who is capable of acting with reference to right and wrong."[2]
- ^ Angus, Taylor (2003). Animals & Ethics: An Overview of the Philosophical Debate. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press. p. 20.
- ^ "Moral," Archived 2015-09-08 at the Wayback Machine Websters Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913, p. 943.