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    Human acts are those that a person can perform voluntarily and for which they are responsible. A moral agent is one who performs acts according to moral standards and can be said to act morally. To be a moral agent, one must have the capacity to rise above feelings and passions and act for the sake of moral law. Non-human entities like animals and robots cannot be considered moral agents because they cannot understand and voluntarily conform to moral standards. Existentialist philosophers believe there is no predetermined purpose or plan for human existence, and that individuals are responsible for determining the direction and meaning of their own lives through their choices and relationships with others.

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    Human acts are those that a person can perform voluntarily and for which they are responsible. A moral agent is one who performs acts according to moral standards and can be said to act morally. To be a moral agent, one must have the capacity to rise above feelings and passions and act for the sake of moral law. Non-human entities like animals and robots cannot be considered moral agents because they cannot understand and voluntarily conform to moral standards. Existentialist philosophers believe there is no predetermined purpose or plan for human existence, and that individuals are responsible for determining the direction and meaning of their own lives through their choices and relationships with others.

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    Human acts are those that a person can perform voluntarily and for which they are responsible. A moral agent is one who performs acts according to moral standards and can be said to act morally. To be a moral agent, one must have the capacity to rise above feelings and passions and act for the sake of moral law. Non-human entities like animals and robots cannot be considered moral agents because they cannot understand and voluntarily conform to moral standards. Existentialist philosophers believe there is no predetermined purpose or plan for human existence, and that individuals are responsible for determining the direction and meaning of their own lives through their choices and relationships with others.

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    MAN AS A MORAL AGENT

    Reporters

    Angeline Charles Silerio Melboy


    Realubit Mirinda
    INTRODUCTION
    A moral agent is one who performs an act
    in accordance with moral standards. A
    moral agent is the moral actor, one who
    acts morally.

    Only a moral agent is capable of human


    acts. That’s why “morality is for persons.”

    A moral agent should have the capacity


    to rise above their feelings and passions
    and act for the sake of the moral law….
    The Human Person as a Moral Agent
    “Moral” come from the Latin “A moral agent being who is
    “mores,” referring to society’s capable of those actions that
    patterns, standards, rules of have moral quality and which
    doing things. can be properly denominated
    “Agent” comes from Latin by good or evil in a moral
    “agree,” to do, act. sense”
    (Edwards, 1754)

    Moral agent Human acts are “those of


    - Is the one who performs an which a man is master, which
    act in accordance with he has the power of doing or
    moral standards. not doing as he pleases” or
    - The moral actor, one who “those acts which proceed
    acts morally. from man as a rational being”
    (Edwards, 1754)
    What is a sufficient condition
    for moral agency?
    According to the
    If the agent has If certain agents
    Kantian version, it is
    the capacity to can obey moral Even if they are
    essential that the
    conform to some laws such as incapable of
    agents should have
    of the external ‘Murder is wrong’ acting for the
    the capacity to rise
    requirements of or ‘Stealing is sake of moral
    above their feelings
    morality. wrong’, then they considerations.
    and passions and act
    are moral agents.
    for the sake of the
    moral law.
    Capacity to A dos is not a
    conform to moral The absence of moral agent
    standards is to that capacity to because it
    act for the sake conform to moral doesn’t have the Same things
    of moral standards, as a capacity to apply to robots
    considerations is case of an conform to moral since its like the
    for the sake of insane person, standards. It dog, it cannot be
    moral law, excludes you cannot a moral agent.
    qualifies one to from moral knowingly, freely,
    be a moral agency. and voluntarily
    agent. act.
    No Pre-fixed Plan for Man
    According to some 20th
    He/she will be totally
    century thinkers, there are no
    responsible for what he/she
    predesigned, prefixed plan,
    will be.
    purpose of man's being.

    One who lives a life of blindly The existentialists and process


    following what others think, say philosophers do not want any
    and do is nothing, zero: other co-being to be co-
    he/she lives a hollow, empty responsible with them for what
    or meaningless life. they decide to do.
    No Pre-fixed Plan for Man
    Other groups like Martin
    Consequently, the end,
    Heidegger, Gabriel Marcel
    purpose, or direction of being-
    and Martin Buber see
    with others is what they learn
    themselves as being-with
    to live together
    others, inseparably related to
    their fellow man

    The other is another subject


    like them, the other is emitting
    signals communicating a "All real living is meeting" , a
    message calling for their life of dialogue.
    creative response. The other is
    saying "let us learn to live
    together" to affirm each other's
    being.
    World To Come Means World to Come Out Of This
    World
    Fr. Rene De Brabander, CICM, former professor in St. Louis University wrote an
    article entitled, "Christianity in the Modern World" The modern christian departs
    from the view that earthly life, the world of flesh, is a sinful thing and has to be
    abandoned for the sake heavenly life.

    "If you hallow this world, you meet the living God". Buber said. The modern saint is
    out there fighting for justice, building schools and hospitals, clothing the naked,
    and feeding the hungry instead of spending the most of his time in contemplation.

    In Robert Francoeur's Perspective of Evolution, the future world toward which a


    person should direct his/her life is the same material world but spiritualized, that is
    material world spiritualized, a world devoid of its conditions. To contribute to the
    making of this future world the human person has to participate through his/her
    creative acts of unifying, ordering, and synthesizing things.
    THANK YOU!

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