Uploaded September 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
We often confuse the responsibility we feel with society's requirements by which we are 'held responsible'. Distinguishing these can help us to avoid imposing fixed and absolute views on our experience of feeling responsible. Often these fixed and absolute views imposed on experience take the form of freewill and determinism, which can be found in several recognised cognitive biases. By avoiding these, we can develop a more practically adequate understanding of responsibility as part of an integrative path, rather than insisting on an idealised ethics that is actually an institutionalised failure.
We often confuse the responsibility we feel with society's requirements by which we are 'held responsible'. Distinguishing these can help us to avoid imposing fixed and absolute views on our experience of feeling responsible. Often these fixed and absolute views imposed on experience take the form of freewill and determinism, which can be found in several recognised cognitive biases. By avoiding these, we can develop a more practically adequate understanding of responsibility as part of an integrative path, rather than insisting on an idealised ethics that is actually an institutionalised failure.
