The phrase "as a responsible agent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the actions or decisions made by someone who is expected to act with accountability and integrity.
Example: "As a responsible agent, I must ensure that all actions taken are in the best interest of my clients."
Alternatives: "as a conscientious individual" or "in my capacity as a responsible party."
It respects the wrongdoer as a responsible agent to censure her, and it respects the victim (if there is one) to stand up for her as someone whose rights should have been respected.
In the example offered in § 4, I treat my friend as a responsible agent only if the reasons I offer her for going to visit her aunt are of the right kind the very reasons that, as I see it, make it right for her to do this.
We must take such wrongdoing seriously, if we take seriously the values against which it offends, the victim's standing as one who has suffered such a wrong, and the wrongdoer's standing as a responsible agent who has done wrong: but to take it seriously is to be prepared to declare it to be wrong it, and to call to account and to condemn those who engage in it.
Prior to this, it was identified as a responsible agent for ADHR [ 10].
The identification of a virus as a responsible agent for arthritis can limit unnecessary diagnostic work-up and prevent the initiation of a potentially harmful chronic immunosuppressive therapy.
Exemptions involve pleas that a person is not competent to function as a morally responsible agent, such as, "She did not understand what she was doing.
If so, would this sort of case undermine an agent's status as a morally responsible agent?
Every individual is capable of becoming a person inasmuch as he has capacity for virtue for performing morally right actions and should be treated (at least potentially) as a morally responsible agent.
On a strong, and radically anti-metaphysical reading, those in the moral community determine the conditions for when a person is or is not a morally responsible agent, as well as whether a person is or is not morally responsible for some bit of conduct.
For censure addresses, and respects, the person censured as a rational and responsible agent: it constitutes an appropriate, deserved response to the wrong that she did, and seeks to bring her to modify her future conduct only by reminding her of the good moral reasons that she has for refraining from crime; it is an appropriate way for citizens to treat and respond to each other.
For, the Kantian can argue, if we are to treat another 'as an end', with the respect due to her as a rational and responsible agent, we must seek to modify her conduct only by offering her good and relevant reasons to modify it for herself.
