ENGR 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Caveat Emptor, Product Liability, Professional Negligence In English Law

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Engineering
• Course: ENGR 201
• Professor: Govind Gopakumar

Document Summary

Engr 201 - lesson 10 - responsibility and liability. Responsibility can be defined as responding to or answering for an action performed. All actions that we take have consequences either for ourselves or for other people who surround us. Answering or accounting for the consequences of ones actions is what is implied by responsibility. In order for a person to be held morally responsible for an action, we should be able to determine two aspects. First, we need to verify agency of the action(who did the action). Second, we need to know the degree of willful intent or in other words, the nature of circumstances that guided the action. In some situations, the responsibility for the action might be less because of the nature of circumstances. A key aspect associated with thinking about responsibility is the concept of role. A role (especially a social role) is a position that an individual holds.