On child agency and moral responsibility: do children possess sufficient capacities for moral agency?

• Main Author: Ting, Jermaine Shi Jie
• Other Authors: Melvin Chen
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities; Moral agency; Child agency; Moral responsibility; Prosocial behavior; Moral transgressions
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/174513
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

It is often postulated across prominent texts and philosophers that children do not have sufficient capacities that are central in grounding moral agency. Thus, children cannot be held morally accountable for their actions. In this paper, I challenge this idea and posit that children can have access...