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We saw in the chapter on Obligation that the concept of responsibility is integrally related to the concept of obligation. Generally a person is responsible for the performance of his obligation; and generally a person is obligated to do a particular act only if he is responsible for it. It is the same act which is obligatory and responsible. But the conditions of the two are not the same. An act is obligatory in so far as (besides being responsible) it realizes good; while this act is responsible in so far as (besides being obligatory) it is ‘voluntary’.
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© 1962 Sidney Zink
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Zink, S. (1962). Responsibility. In: The Concepts of Ethics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81652-1_6
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