Historische Beiträge zu einer Minimaldefinition von »Verantwortung«

Etymologie und Genese der Verantwortung vor dem Hintergrund der Verantwortungsforschung

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Zurück zum Heft: Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte. Band 56
DOI: 10.28937/9783787336685_8

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No consistent and universal definition of responsibility has been provided so far – neither in the general scientific context, nor (surprisingly) in studies and research explicitly related to the responsibility phenomenon. In this paper I outline a minimalistic definition of responsibility exploring to what extent the ›preresponsible concepts‹ duty and guilt merge in our contemporary understanding of responsibility. Epistemologically the minimalistic definition of responsibility combines three ideas: to be responsible is (1) a normative concept, it means (2) to be answerable for something, and is based (3) on the assumption of a certainpsycho-motivational constitution of the responsible agent.