Responbility for Attitudes: Activity and Passivity in Mental Life  

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Smith, Angela M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethics: An International Journal of Social Political and Legal Philosophy vol. 115 no. 2 (Jan. 2005), page 236-271.
Topik: Ethics; Tanggung Jawab; Akitivitas; Volitional; Significance of Spontaneous

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE44.19 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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I forgot a close a friend's birthday last year. A few days after the fact, I realized that this important date had come and gone without my so much as sending a card or giving her a call. I was mortified. what kind of a friend could forget such a thing? Within minutes I was on the phone to her, acknowledging my fault and offering my apologies. But what, exactly was the nature of my fault in this case? After all, I did not consciously choose to forget this special day or deliberately decide to ignore it. I did not intend to hurt my friend's feelingsor even foresee that my conduct would have this effect. I just forgot. It didn't occur to me. I failed to notice. And yet, despite the apparent involuntariness of this failure, there was no doubt in either of our minds that I was, indeed, responsible for it.Although my friend was quick to pardon my thoughtlessness and to dismiss it as trivial and unimportant, the act of pardoning itself is simply a way of renouncing certain critical responses which it is acknowlegdewould, in principle, be justified.

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