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    Supports→The idea that we are responsible is to be understood by the practice of reactive attitudes, not the other way around.

    It is not that we hold people responsible because they are responsible; rather, expressing our concerns and demands about our treatment of one another constitutes the practice from which the idea of responsibility derives.

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    Constitutes(used to explain how practice creates the concept of responsibility)
    Forms or makes up the basis of something; creates the foundation for how something exists or works.
    Constructivism (implied concept)(the underlying approach of this statement, which argues responsibility is created by our actions rather than existing independently)
    The philosophical view that ideas and concepts don't exist independently—instead, humans create them through their interactions and practices.
    Derives(explains how the concept of responsibility emerges from our practices)
    Comes from or originates out of something; develops as a result of something else.

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    Practice (in philosophy)(refers to the actual act of holding people accountable through our behavior)
    A shared social activity or way of doing things that a community participates in together, which gives meaning to our interactions.
    responsibility(as used in ethics)
    Being morally accountable for your actions—deserving praise or blame for what you do.

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    In Strawson’s view, there is no such independent notion of responsibility that explains the propriety of the reactive attitudes. The explanatory priority is the other way around: It is not that we hold people responsible because they are responsible; rather, the idea (our idea) that we are responsible is to be understood by the practice, which itself is not a matter of holding some propositions to be true, but of expressing our concerns and demands about our treatment of one another. (Watson 1987 [2004: 222]; emphasis in original; see Bennett 1980 for a related, non-cognitivist interpretation ...

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