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| Responsibility: Responsibility is the state of being accountable for something. It is the obligation to do something or to take care of something. See also Duties, Community, Behavior, Actions._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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D. Parfit on Responsibility - Dictionary of Arguments
Singer I 234 Responsibility/Climate Change/Parfit/Singer, P.: (D. Parfit, Reasons and Persons, Oxford, 1984, chap. 3): Thesis: The fact that we think that someone gets seriously damaged only when this person has a reason to complain is likely to be a relic from earlier times, where effects and influences could be observed more directly. Today, the damage caused by environmental influences cannot be attributed directly. >Ethics/Glover, >Environmental damages, >Causality, >Causal relation, >Causation, cf. >Liability, >Compensation, >Tort law._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Parf I D. Parfit Reasons and Persons Oxford 1986 Parf II Derekt Parfit On what matters Oxford 2011 SingerP I Peter Singer Practical Ethics (Third Edition) Cambridge 2011 SingerP II P. Singer The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically. New Haven 2015 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19