Answerability Archives - Sartre's Conception of Freedom

August 17, 2026 · Answerability

Standing to Blame, and the Authority to Demand an Answer

Whether an act was wrong and whether a particular person may confront the agent about it are different questions. Keeping them apart dissolves a set of false alternatives about what institutions may do.

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August 17, 2026 · Answerability

Responsibility Laundering

An institution can centralize benefit and control while dispersing risky execution, and then point to the resulting fragmentation as proof that nobody powerful is answerable. Naming the manoeuvre is the first step in refusing it.

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