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Moral responsibility
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Moral responsibility is a more nuanced concept. While legal responsibility concentrates on establishing minimum standards of acceptable conduct, moral responsibility can move from the minimum all the way to the exemplary. While legal responsibility looks to where individuals can be punished for untoward actions, moral responsibility considers societal responses that range from social ostracism to recognition and praise for conduct that is outstanding. Roughly speaking, moral responsibility is a much more flexible and wide ranging concept and practice.
- Moral responsibility begins with causality; some thing (an agent, thing, or event) cause some other thing to occur.
Causal responsibility is essential for establishing criminal responsibility; one cannot blame an punish an individual for something that that individual did not cause. It is also important for establishing moral responsibility ranging all the way from blame to praise.
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Vicarious responsibility departs somewhat from causal responsibility. A parent might be responsible for paying for the window broken by his or her child. In other forms of vicarious responsibility, one person (a principle) authorizes another (a designated agent) to act on his or her behalf. A private individual may hire an engineer to design and supervise the building of a house. The private individual is the principle who originates the act; it expresses his or her interest or intention. The agent is responsible for the execution of the action originated by the principle; he or she executes the designs of the principle. A special problem can arise here. How can the principle ensure that the agent remains faithful to his or her interests? Often agents are deviated by conflicting interests, that is, interests that come in from the outside and adversely effect the ability of the agent to skillfully and professionally carry out the interests of the principle.
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Capacity responsibility sets forth the conditions under which an action can be imputed or attributed to an agent for the purpose assigning moral praise and blame. The ethicists, F.H. Bradley, argues that there are three: selfsameness, moral sense, and ownership. More on these below.
- Causal and capacity responsibility are focused on the past.
Role Responsibility looks to the future and outlines those actions or tasks one is obliged to perform as a part of his or her social, occupational, or professional role. Parents are (role) responsible for looking after their childrens' health. Engineer's are (role) responsible for holding paramount the health, safety, and welfare of the public. Individuals are answerable when they fail to carry out their role responsibilities.
- Finally, there is what Goodpaster and Velazquez describe as the
aretaic sense of responsibility or responsibility as a virtue or excellence. (Arete in Greek signifies excellence.) Calling an individual responsible in this sense is to call him or her trustworthy or reliable in an exemplary sense. This applies to those who carry out their responsibilities in an exemplary manner (an outstanding parent) and go beyond the moral minimum in doing so.
Questions & Answers
A golfer on a fairway is 70 m away from the green, which sits below the level of the fairway by 20 m. If the golfer hits the ball at an angle of 40° with an initial speed of 20 m/s, how close to the green does she come?
A mouse of mass 200 g falls 100 m down a vertical mine shaft and lands at the bottom with a speed of 8.0 m/s. During its fall, how much work is done on the mouse by air resistance
Can you compute that for me. Ty
Jude
what is the dimension formula of energy?
Chemistry is a branch of science that deals with the study of matter,it composition,it structure and the changes it undergoes
Adjei
please, I'm a physics student and I need help in physics
Adjanou
chemistry could also be understood like the sexual attraction/repulsion of the male and female elements. the reaction varies depending on the energy differences of each given gender. + masculine -female.
Pedro
A ball is thrown straight up.it passes a 2.0m high window 7.50 m off the ground on it path up and takes 1.30 s to go past the window.what was the ball initial velocity
2. A sled plus passenger with total mass 50 kg is pulled 20 m across the snow (0.20) at constant velocity by a force directed 25° above the horizontal. Calculate (a) the work of the applied force, (b) the work of friction, and (c) the total work.
you have been hired as an espert witness in a court case involving an automobile accident. the accident involved car A of mass 1500kg which crashed into stationary car B of mass 1100kg. the driver of car A applied his brakes 15 m before he skidded and crashed into car B. after the collision, car A s
can someone explain to me, an ignorant high school student, why the trend of the graph doesn't follow the fact that the higher frequency a sound wave is, the more power it is, hence, making me think the phons output would follow this general trend?
Nevermind i just realied that the graph is the phons output for a person with normal hearing and not just the phons output of the sound waves power, I should read the entire thing next time
Joseph
Follow up question, does anyone know where I can find a graph that accuretly depicts the actual relative "power" output of sound over its frequency instead of just humans hearing
Joseph
"Generation of electrical energy from sound energy | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore" ***ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7150687?reload=true
Ryan
what are the types of wave
Maurice
fine, how about you?
Mohammed
A string is 3.00 m long with a mass of 5.00 g. The string is held taut with a tension of 500.00 N applied to the string. A pulse is sent down the string. How long does it take the pulse to travel the 3.00 m of the string?
Who can show me the full solution in this problem?
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OpenStax, Business ethics. OpenStax CNX. Sep 04, 2013 Download for free at http://legacy.cnx.org/content/col10491/1.11
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