Responsibility and Fault

These highly original essays develop themes implicit in Herbert Hart and the author''s ''Causation in the Law'', 2nd ed. 1985;. Why should we be held responsible for the harm we cause? Honoré; proposes a theory of responsibility, ''outcome responsibility'', according to which, to be responsible, it is sufficient to have intervened in the world. To act and to be responsible is to assume certain ris...