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    Achieving moral agency enables the achievement of personh... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The human being can be held as a moral agent capable of achieving personhood.

    Achieving moral agency enables the achievement of personhood.

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    The second interpretation of the view that the human being was created good (or, to be good), implies that the human being merely has the capacity for virtue: that is, could pursue good, but could also pursue evil. This means that the human being is endowed with moral sense and, so, has the capacity for both virtue and vice; his judgment on some moral issue could go either direction: direction of the good or direction of the evil. Thus, the notion of moral neutrality is preserved. The human bei

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