causation is synonymous with responsibility?
Does it mean that one wonders if this is the cause that has produced such an effect which is the origin of responsibility?
But then we must also ask: what is it that the "causal ?
Anyway the question is too classic (millions of pages to the deal have probably already been written), and yet far from being resolved (see the discussion on whether to try the crazy) .
However, Dr. Philo has committed to meet its honorable readers and it is not one to shrink from its responsibility
talking causality How does one? Of cause efficient? The related cause will ? Is this a topic that has been in full knowledge event, or was he ignorant of the effect, or incapable of being aware of what he doing?
- It's been a long time does not touch the court that the animal has caused injury, and is no longer considered (or not) the criminally insane.
-> So the attribution of responsibility requires not only that we have done what gives rise to liability, but we still have the desired .
So few answers:
1 - There is liability only where there was something that was done involving the human will - or divine.
And so the fact strictly natural (the earthquake that devastated an area, the storm that sank the boat) does not give rise to any liability.
Similarly, the chance is not responsible: the fact of winning a fortune at Loto has absolutely no meaning in this field.
2-Ask the question of liability, it raises the question: when can we say that we actually wanted what happened. We remember the formula "Responsible but not guilty ", which meant that there formal responsibility but not real, when you do not really want what happened. Judged at this time Duch, the torturer of Cambodia, which as the Nazi executioners pleads for obedience exculpate himself. They did, yes - but they did not want.
3 - More interesting, this observation is consistent with Ricoeur to say that this issue requires resolution prior to another question: who is the real agent of action? Or if you prefer: Who has done what one is talking about?