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Mechanisms of moral disengagement in the exercise of moral agency.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1996
This research examined the role of mechanisms of moral disengagement in the exercise of moral agency. Regulatory self-sanctions can be selectively disengaged from detrimental conduct by converting harmful acts to moral ones through linkage to worthy purposes, obscuring personal causal agency by diffusion and displacement of responsibility ...
BANDURA A.   +3 more
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Moral Agency in Nursing

Nursing Forum, 1994
Moral agency involves risk. It is an action that is at odds with the traditional role of the nurse. However, as nurses assume more responsibility and accountability for client management and outcomes in an increasingly complex and uncertain environment, it is essential to approach ethical dilemmas in a manner consistent with the caring component of ...
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Jonah and moral agency

Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 2018
This essay employs recent work in Psychology and Biblical Studies on moral selfhood in order to examine the portrayal of moral agency in Jonah.
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Artefactual Agency and Artefactual Moral Agency

2013
This chapter takes as its starting place that artefacts, in combination with humans, constitute human action and social practices, including moral actions and practices. Our concern is with what is regarded as a moral agent in these actions and practices. Ideas about artefactual ontology, artefactual agency, and artefactual moral agency are intertwined.
Deborah G. Johnson, Merel Noorman
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On the Moral Agency of Computers

Topoi, 2013
Can computer systems ever be considered moral agents? This paper considers two factors that are explored in the recent philosophical literature. First, there are the important domains in which computers are allowed to act, made possible by their greater functional capacities.
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Persons and Moral Agency

Theory & Psychology, 2005
Charles Taylor’s claim that personhood consists in its relation to moral goods and commitments, and that persons are moral agents, is summarized and examined. According to this view, persons not only have an understanding of themselves as moral agents, they are partially constituted by this understanding. It is argued that as moral agents, persons are
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Moral Agency in Postmodernity

International Studies in Philosophy, 2000
Etude de la relation paradoxale entre postmodernisme et moralite. Soulignant les implications pratiques de revendication de la mort du sujet, l'A. montre que l'idee des limites de l'action n'engendre pas le rejet de la morale, mais delimite les elements d'une psychologie morale altruiste qui ouvre la voie a la sensibilite morale postmoderne.
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Emotions and moral agency

Philosophical Explorations, 2010
In this paper, I present a general profile of individuals with psychopathy, autism, and acquired sociopathy as well as look specifically at the abilities of these individuals with respect to the moral domain. These individuals are individually and collectively interesting because of their significant affective and social impairments.
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On properly characterizing moral agency

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2018
AbstractDoris (2015b) develops a theory of moral agency to avoid a skeptical challenge arising from psychology studies indicating that (im)moral behavior is caused by trivial situational factors. His theory is flawed in attending only to situational influences on behavior and neglecting individual differences such as moral identity and virtue.
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The Schematism of Moral Agency

New Literary History, 1983
HILOSOPHY is a struggle over pronouns. What movement is possible between "we" and "I"? Or, to express the matter differently, is there an epistemic priority of the "we" over the "I"? Does the "we" hold many "I's" within it-"I's" which comprise the "we"-or is the "we" generated by the "I"?
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