Rather than a discrete agenda, shared responsibility-global solidarity provides a new way of thinking about global health now and in the years after 2015.
Discrete versus continuous time.
The MSIF provides discrete ratings of role responsibility, presence and level of support, and performance quality.
But, unlike its two more purely individualistic counterparts, it does not associate either causal responsibility or blameworthiness with discrete individuals or locate the source of moral responsibility in the free will of individual moral agents.
It is the Court's responsibility to protect discrete and insular minorities from majoritarian prejudice, hostility and indifference.
The characteristics that qualify one to become a stage manager include the following: leadership and management skills; teammate; assumes responsibility; dependable; loyal; discrete; ability to maintain cool and collected; good sense of humor; and great communication skills.
Third, given its association with discrete individuals, the Kantian understanding of moral responsibility would seem to be especially out of place when it comes to collective responsibility.
While the notion of moral responsibility traditionally understood grounds moral blameworthiness in the wills of discrete individuals who freely cause harm, the notion of collective responsibility associates both causation and blameworthiness with groups and construes groups as moral agents in their own right.
It's simply about being at home on this discrete island and being aware of the privileges and responsibilities that brings.
Mr. Bush is also the first leading Republican to call for increasing the budget and responsibilities of the federal Department of Education, which became a discrete cabinet agency in the Carter administration; for years, the Republican party has called for the department's abolition.
