An individual is a moral agent if he or she:
A) Is capable of making moral judgments about the rightness and wrongness of actions
B) Has the capacity for sentience
C) Has motives that can be judged morally
D) Both a and b
E) Both a and c

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An individual is considered a moral agent if they can make moral judgments about actions (indicating an understanding of right and wrong) and if their motives can be judged morally. This encompasses both the cognitive aspect of understanding morality and the motivational aspect that drives actions which can be morally evaluated.

An Individual Is a Moral Agent If He or She