These agents will not treat themselves as authoritative and answerable for their conduct; rather, the way in which they answer for themselves (if they do so at all) will be governed by the reasons of the agents to whom they defer.
He develops this idea in recent work to argue that autonomous agents are those who treat themselves as answerable for their conduct, who claim the authority to speak for themselves (Benson 2005a, 111 ff).
Havel himself has suggested that people begin to "conduct themselves as if they were to live on this earth forever and be answerable for its condition one day".
Havel himself has suggested that people begin to "conduct themselves as if they were to live on this earth forever and be answerable for its condition one day". Fair enough, but let me propose a slightly less abstract and daunting wager.
No single agency or individual seemed answerable for the problems.
Somebody has got to be answerable for this.
Is Ms Jowell really answerable for her husband's actions?
"Somebody has got to be answerable for this," he said.
Brad is answerable for that, and he knows it.
During one exchange, as she argued Westminster was answerable for Northern Ireland, Mr FitzGerald retorted that "for 50 years they had not regarded themselves as being answerable".
"We will make the people who dig up our roads answerable for their actions," she said.
