The expression "culpable ignorance" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to refer to someone's lack of knowledge regarding a situation, which is considered to be careless or negligent. For example, "The CEO was charged with fraud due to his culpable ignorance of the company's financial situation."
And still they allowed their enthusiasm for nuclear power to shelter weak regulation, safety systems that failed to work and a culpable ignorance of the tectonic risks the reactors faced, all the while blithely promulgating a myth of nuclear safety.Not all democracies do things so poorly.
"There is such a thing as culpable ignorance," he counters.
One sort of culpable ignorance which has received a fair bit of attention from philosophers writing about evil is ignorance that results from self-deception.
A virtuous adult is not, of course, infallible and may also, on occasion, fail to do what she intended to do through lack of knowledge, but only on those occasions on which the lack of knowledge is not culpable ignorance.
Labour's Graham Stringer called on the prime minister to immediately sack NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson for "wilful and culpable ignorance" over 1,000 deaths at Stafford Hospital.
This objection fails because, as Aristotle [ 19] noted, people are responsible when their intended acts, culpable ignorance, or inaction causes harm.
Non-culpable ignorance of the consequences of one's actions seems to excuse as much as lack of control.
In sum, the ordinary person's view, as Bradley presents it, is Aristotelian: for the purposes of determining moral responsibility an act has to be the agent's in that its origin (arche) lies with or in the agent in some sense and the agent must not be acting under coercion or in a state of non-culpable ignorance.
Aquinas reasoned that acting contrary to conscience is an evil action but an errant conscience is only blameworthy if it is the result of culpable or vincible ignorance of factors that one has a duty to have knowledge of.
That outside world, as we know, had entered upon one of its most murderous and cataclysmic phases, though "none of the news of these world-spasms entered me as terror... and if there was something culpable about such political ignorance in that time and place, there was something positive about the security I inhabited as a result of it".
That is to say, individuals are less culpable when they act in ignorance of the disvalue of their crime.
