Agency

Agency is undoubtedly a morally relevant trait; but it is one among many.

Isaac Levi, Conflict and Social Agency, The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 79, no. 5, 1982, pp. 231, p. 237

It is […] essential to see the public not merely as ’the patient’ whose well-being commands attention, but also as ’the agent’ whose actions can transform society.

Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen, Hunger and public action, Oxford [England] : New York, 1989, p. 279