The Claim

I've begun to outline an essay on the issue of responsibility.

I hope to address the problems that I briefly raised in my last post.

The central claim is this: To be responsible is to be a special kind of historian.

A vague statement? Yes.

The claim arises out of the question: How do I account for the retroactivity of responsibility? How am I to explain the fact that responsibility can be assumed well after a thought, feeling, or action has occurred?

I will put some meat on the bones of these statements soon, I hope.