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Responsibility And Accountability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Nicolas Haines
Nicolas Haines
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Birkbeck College, London
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His “practical purpose” was first to express the popular notion of responsibility and then to relate it to the philosophical theories of “freewill and necessity.” For he could not approve the suggestion that to understand popular comments on morality was a worthless occupation; indeed, while he respected the Westminster Reviewers for the blunt declaration that vulgar responsibility was a “horrid figment of the imagination,” he plainly considered it his business as a philosopher to examine ordinary morality and to reconcile it, if possible, with philosophical theory.

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Philosophy , Volume 30 , Issue 113 , April 1955 , pp. 141 - 163
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1955

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