Assertion: person | /r/HasProperty | responsible for behavior
Facets:
value: morally
type: MANNER
value: potentially
type: MANNER
value: in a superficial sense
type: MANNER
value: according to these views
type: OTHER
value: directly
type: MANNER
value: legally
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Blame is a response that may follow on the judgment that a person is morally responsible for behavior that is wrong or bad, and praise is a response that may follow on the judgment that a person is morally responsible for behavior that is right or good.
text: The judgment that a person is morally responsible for her behavior involves—at least to a first approximation—attributing certain powers and capacities to that person, and viewing her behavior as arising (in the right way) from the fact that the person has, and has exercised, these powers and capacities.
text: The notion of free will has become an important issue in the debate on whether individuals are ever morally responsible for their actions and, if so, in what sense.
text: Although it may often be the case that when a person is morally responsible for an act, they are also legally responsible for it, the two states do not always coincide.[citation needed]
text: A person is legally responsible for an event when a legal system is liable to penalise that person for that event.
text: Attribution can be external (assigning causality to an outside agent or force—claiming that some outside thing motivated the event) or internal (assigning causality to factors within the person—taking personal responsibility or accountability for one's actions and claiming that the person was directly responsible for the event).
text: When presented with a specific immoral act that a specific person committed, people tend to say that that person is morally responsible for their actions, even if they were determined (that is, people also give compatibilist answers).
text: Blame is a response that may follow on the judgment that a person is morally responsible for behavior that is wrong or bad, and praise is a response that may follow on the judgment that a person is morally responsible for behavior that is right or good.
text: According to these views, a person is responsible for behavior that is attributable to her real self, and
text: Making judgments about whether a person is morally responsible for her behavior, and holding others and ourselves responsible for actions and the consequences of actions, is a fundamental and familiar part of our moral practices and our interpersonal relationships.
text: Wolf suggests that when a person’s real self is the product of serious childhood trauma (or related factors), then that person is potentially responsible for her behavior only in a superficial sense that merely attributes bad actions to the agent
text: (c) to hold responsible only those individuals who are responsible for their actions.
text: (c) to hold responsible only those individuals who are responsible for their actions.