Expectations and attribution of responsibility

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Under the hypothesis that every attribution of responsibility rests on the fact that an expectation has been breached, the author proposes to understand expectations as standards adopted by a community to evaluate specific events and allow the members of the community to search for an explanation of the events which breach expectations. After presenting this way of understanding expectations, their relationship with responsibility is analyzed, having in mind the mentioned hypothesis. To close the paper, the relationship between responsibility and expectations is explored as an alternative to the idea that every attribution of responsibility supposes the breach of an obligation, whether moral or legal, by who is held responsible.

Pričakovanja in pripisovanje odgovornosti. Ob predpostavki, da vsako pripisovanje odgovornosti temelji na dejstvu, da je bilo prekršeno neko pričakovanje, avtor predlaga, da se pričakovanja razume kot družbeno sprejete standarde za ocenjevanje konkretnih dogodkov, ki omogočajo članom skupnosti iskanje razlage dogodkov, ki kršijo pričakovanja. Potem ko predstavi omenjeno razumevanje pričakovanj v luči zgornje predpostavke, avtor prouči, v kakšni zvezi so pričakovanja z odgovornostjo. Razpravo nato zaključi s predlogom, da zvezo med pričakovanji in odgovornostjo razumemo kot alternativo ideji, po kateri vsako pripisovanje odgovornosti predpostavlja kršitev neke moralne ali pravne obveznosti tistega, ki mu odgovornost pripisujemo.