The phrase "account of responsibility" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the explanation or justification of one's duties or obligations in a particular context.
Example: "In her report, she provided a detailed account of responsibility for each team member's tasks during the project."
Alternatives: "explanation of duties" or "report on obligations".
If, on the other hand, one accepts a compatibilist, reason responsiveness account of responsibility, many outcomes will not be a matter of responsibility luck, at least for some agents.
"Juxtaposition of these developmental stories begs for an account of responsibility in childhood," they wrote.
But it is a particular image used by Yannaras that perhaps expresses most simply what a Christian account of responsibility in our environment comes down to.
If, on the one hand, one accepts a hard deterministic account of responsibility, everything is a matter of responsibility luck.
They add that, since processes are necessarily historical, it follows that their account of responsibility attends to an action's genesis or origins.
A hard deterministic account of responsibility says that responsibility and determinism are incompatible, that determinism is true, and, hence, that no one is ever responsible for anything.
Some philosophical defenses of intentionalism appeal to a voluntaristic account of responsibilities in general (Van Zyl 2002).
For, on many accounts of responsibility, what I am responsible for depends on properties of the actual sequence of events and not on what I would have done in some counterfactual sequence of events in which my personality differs from the way it actually is.
The underlying idea here is that there is a sense in which the outcome of a (fair) lottery is a matter of luck for the person who participates in it whether or not he is responsible for it as some accounts of responsibility imply and others do not.
According to the accounts of responsibility at issue, members of socially dominant groups, or, "the privileged," are responsible for knowing and acting on these basic facts about humanity that they share with their subordinates (Zack, 1998, pp. 42 43; Superson, 2004).
The panel's inquiry, he said, will be similar to investigations of the Pearl Harbor attack and the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, both of which won national attention for their unsparing accounting of responsibility.
