Topics included, among others, modern technology, ecological imperatives, responsibilities and control of the mass media, minority and constitutional rights, and world peace.
Based on his "imperative of responsibility" as a fundamental principle, we argue that the concept of Responsible Leadership has to encompass the following key aspects.
It's imperative that responsibility for nutrition be handed back to an independent agency".
"It is therefore imperative that responsibility for nutrition be handed back to an independent agency, which is not affected by changes in government, ministers or political lobbying".
The impact agenda can be seen to unearth moral questions about epistemic value and responsbility, with many of the narratives provided by participants implying a tension, increasingly apparent between intellectual ideals about the defense of intrinsic epistemic value, vs. the moral imperative or responsibility that knowledge ought to be instrumentally useful to society.
Hans Jonas, in The Imperative of Responsibility, calls for a radical change in ethics.
We must acknowledge that with this power comes what the philosopher Hans Jonas called an "imperative of responsibility" since all life, not only human life, is threatened by our misuse of our knowledge and technological skill.
His response to the environmental crisis is most fully elucidated in his book, "The Imperative of Responsibility". In this work, Jonas argued that the environmental crisis emerged from the human impact on the natural world, which is greater and more far-reaching than in any previous age.
Thus, the imperative of personal responsibility crept into their responses, even though this was not the intent of the question: " I always think I could do more.
The admissions of the Saville report last week, and the government's apology for Bloody Sunday, remind us of the imperative to acknowledge responsibility for state crimes against civilians, however too little or too late.
