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Stephen Downes

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The March 'Big Question' is, "What is the scope of our responsibility as learning professionals?" One day I need to write at greater length on the subject of 'responsibilities'. Because many people suppose that they can impose 'responsibilities' on other people by virtue of their citizenship or their profession or whatever. I don't agree with this. These things that are imposed ought more properly to be called 'duties' - and the logic of duties is narrow and closely defined. One might read Kant or Ross on duties, for example. Otherwise, the only 'responsibilities' we can be held to account for are those that we freely enter into. I don't accept the dialogue of 'responsibility' - it is a substitution of obedience for freedom, without the ground of reflection or reason.

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