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Guilt is a legal term; responsibility is a moral one.
This suggests a continuity which is not there, and backgrounds societal developments through which the term "responsibility" emerged and obtained its meanings.
It is important to keep the relatively recent emergence of the term "responsibility" in mind because the term is often used to refer to thoughts and analyses in texts of pre-19th century philosophers (e.g. Aristotle, Hume) who do not use the term.
It follows a fundamental disaffection with approaches that focus on accountability, liability and (causal) evidence (cf. (Stilgoe et al. 2013)), which contribute to a general re-conceptualization of the term "responsibility" as care, which is the main topic of the present section.
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