Cuando son muchas las voces

Abstract

The work departs from an approach to the genesis of the concept of responsibility. Some features of the concept that have today become obvious can already come into sight in this first approach. The work devotes itself then to point out the implications (and, most of all, the consequences) involved in openly ascribing responsibility to the Modern Age and to the rise of industrial civilization. One of these main consequences is perhaps to have to deal with a number of theoretical topics in a necessary connexion with another axial topic of modern thought, namely, identity. Besides, the essay points also to a number of topics, such as the problem of the alleged collective responsibilities and also that of evil, just to quote two of them, whose magnitude may serve as an indicator to the relevance of the concept of responsibility in contemporary thought.