What Are We Responsible For? Intentions, consequences and character

Shand, John (2021). What Are We Responsible For? Intentions, consequences and character. In Daily Philosophy Daily Philosophy.

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Abstract

How far does our responsibility extend? What can we rightly be regarded as responsible for? This matters because, looked at negatively it coincides with what we may be blamed or be held culpable for, and looked as positively it coincides with what we might be praised or given an accolade for. This in turn, respectively, brings about things we might be expected to feel guilty about, feel the need to make amends for, learn from, think that being punished is not out of order, and then conversely brings about things where we might rightly feel good about ourselves, satisfaction, and that praise or a reward may not be out of order.

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