Ethics

When we call someone a ‘responsible person’ or remark that someone ‘conducts themselves responsibly’,

we refer to a positive character trait.

• Responsibility as attribution

• Responsibility as a virtue

• Responsibility as obligation

• Accountability

• Liability

This is related to responsibility but with a narrower meaning and is defined as being open to judgement by one’s peers or by the entire society.

• Responsibility as attribution

• Responsibility as a virtue

• Responsibility as obligation

• Accountability

• Liability

This refers to the responsibility of fulfilling one’s legal obligations.

• Responsibility as attribution

• Responsibility as a virtue

• Responsibility as obligation

• Accountability

• Liability

Responsibility involves a certain activity entrusted or assigned or a duty or job inherent in a position.

• Responsibility as attribution

• Responsibility as a virtue

• Responsibility as obligation

• Accountability

• Liability

This meaning of responsibility indicates who is required to compensate for damages due to misbehavior.

• Responsibility as attribution

• Responsibility as a virtue

• Responsibility as obligation

• Accountability

• Liability

This means that responsibility refers to voluntary actions and those entailing a rational choice made of a person’s free will as opposed to being made as the result of coercion or duress.

• Consent of the will

• Voluntariness

• Knowledge

• Accountability

• Liability

By virtue of living in structured society, we acquire this responsibility which is determined by laws and other legitimate regulations promulgated by the public authorities.

• Environmental responsibility

• Legal responsibility

• Moral responsibility

• Social responsibility

This type of responsibility entails being answerable for impacts and not to cause harm

to society or those affected by an action.

• Environmental responsibility

• Legal responsibility

• Moral responsibility

• Social responsibility

This type of responsibility refers to the evaluation of the human quality of an

action in terms of good or bad, right or wrong.

• Environmental responsibility

• Legal responsibility

• Moral responsibility

• Social responsibility

It is said that we possess this responsibility that consists of acting only after possessing proper justification.

• Antecedent responsibility

• Consequent responsibility

• Congruent responsibility

• Transcendent responsibility