Radical responsibility is the idea that as agents, we are what we decide to do, and we are therefore — in a rather radical sense of the word — responsible for who we are.

This chapter argues that radical responsibility should not be understood as arbitrary self-choice through detached reflection, as it is often seen in the literature. Rather, it should be understood as self-determination through pre-reflective self-awareness. It is further argued that radical responsibility applies to us jointly as well as severally. It is not just the case that each of us is radically responsible for who they are; rather, we, together, are collectively responsible for what we are jointly, as the teams, groups, or societies we are. Radical collective responsibility is our plural self-determination through plural pre-reflective self-awareness.

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Source: Bazargan-Forward Saba, Tollefsen Deborah (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Collective Responsibility. Routledge,2020. — 538 p.. 2020

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