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Moral responsibility for unprevented harmKlampfer, FriderikThat we are morally responsible for what we do willingly and knowingly is a commonplace. That our moral responsibility extends as far as to cover at least the intended consequences of our voluntary ... actions and perhaps also the ones we did not intend, but could or did foresee, is equally beyond dispute. But what about omissions? Are we, or can we be, (equally) morally responsible for the harm that has occured because we did not prevent it, even though we could have done so? Say, for all the enormous suffering, caused daily by famine, deprivation and curable diseases in the Third World countries? Moral intuitions and practices that one could consult in this matter seem to leave us in the dark. We regularly ascribe responsibility to people for harms resulting from their negligence or failure to fulfill professional duties. On the other hand, we tend to think that unless there is some evidence of the causal contribution that agents made to a harmful event and/or state, it is not really fair to blame it on them. And finally, to complicate things even more, most of us deny that omissions could effect anything (any change) in the world and consequently regard them as causally impotent (as well as possibly harmless). Most of the proposed solutions to this perplexing issue simply take negative moral responsibility for granted and then either try to revise out ordinary notion of causation accordingly or, alternatively, weaken the conditions for holding someone morally responsible. In the paper I present and defend the relative merits of the third approach, one sceptical of the notion of moral responsibility for the 'outcomes' of omissions. I try to show that for some identifiable core notion of moral responsibility and paradigmatic cases of omissions, the prospects for a happy marriage are rather slimSource: Acta analytica : philosophy and psychology : [international periodical for philosophy in analytical tradition]. - ISSN 0353-5150 (Vol. 19, iss. 33, 2004, str. 119-161)Type of material - article, component part ; adult, seriousPublish date - 2004Language - englishCOBISS.SI-ID - 13823240
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Klampfer, Friderik
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etika |
morala |
moralna odgovornost |
pravna odgovornost |
vzročnost |
dejanja in izpusti |
povzročanje škode |
etics |
morals |
moral responsibility |
legal responsibility |
causation |
acts and omissions |
causing harm |
allowing harm
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source: Acta analytica : philosophy and psychology : [international periodical for philosophy in analytical tradition]. - ISSN 0353-5150 (Vol. 19, iss. 33, 2004, str. 119-161)
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