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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Shame and Necessity' and 'Replies on 'Limits of Abstraction''

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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 4. Responsibility for Actions

2174	Responsibility involves cause, intention, state of mind, and response after the event [Williams,B]
	Full Idea: The four elements of any conception of responsibility are cause, intention, state of mind, and response after the event.
	From: Bernard Williams (Shame and Necessity [1993], III - p.53)

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / c. Omissions

20869	The highest degree of morality performs all that is appropriate, omitting nothing [Chrysippus]
	Full Idea: He who makes moral progress to the highest degree performs all the appropriate actions in all circumstances, and omits none.
	From: Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]), quoted by Sophocles - Sophocles' Electra 4.39.22
	A reaction: Hence concerns about omission as well as commission in the practice of ethics can be seen in the light of character and virtue. The world is fully of nice people who act well, but don't do so well on omissions. Car drivers, for example.