책임의 분류와 유기적 이해

Abstract

The Korean word ‘chaek-im’(responsibility) is used in different meanings which I respectively name blameworthiness-responsibility, liability-responsibility, role-responsibility, and pseudo-responsibility. The concept of blameworthiness-responsibility refers to the blameworthiness on the actor in relation to an act or its outcome, the concept of liability-responsibility the potential occurrence of a burden, or the burden itself, in relation to a past norm-violating act, and the concept of role-responsibility a kind of task asked for as a norm. Each concept can be classified into sub-meanings.
 Also responsibility can be classified in various ways according to subject, addressee, object, sanction, reason, norm, etc., which are the basic elements of the structure of responsibility, as well as according to the nature, for example, pre-event responsibility v. post-event responsibility, backward-looking responsibility v. forward-looking responsibility, and positive responsibility v. negative responsibility, etc.
 Lastly, I propose response-based theory of responsibility, which, I think, can give the most coherent understanding of the various concepts and structure-comprising elements of responsibility.