What is Responsibility?

The article talks about responsibility. The logician J. M. Bochenski was the first philosopher explicitly to point out that the concept of responsibility is a concept of relation. The four dimensions of responsibility include legal responsibility. Encouraging of conscience still seems necessary but...

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Publicado en:Philosophy Now no. 56; pp. 29 - 33
Autor principal: Lenk, Hans
Formato: Editorial
Publicado: Philosophy Now Jul/Aug2006
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Sumario:The article talks about responsibility. The logician J. M. Bochenski was the first philosopher explicitly to point out that the concept of responsibility is a concept of relation. The four dimensions of responsibility include legal responsibility. Encouraging of conscience still seems necessary but not sufficient enough for approaching all the difficult problems of the distribution of different kinds of responsibilities.