Social and Ethical Responsibility against Social Determinism

Background: Because of the highlighted role of ethical responsibility in social and individual life, it is looked as an important issue in ethics area. Social responsibility that is defined as a sub-factor of ethical responsibility will have such an important place. What is discussed in responsibility discussions commonly is the “human will”. Responsibility is more based on the free will. In the public society, someone who is determined is not responsible. Therefore, responsibility and human will are closely depended together. On the other hand each definition of will is related to the determinism. There is various kind of determinism and social determinism is one of them. Perspectives that focus on social situations as determiners of situations disregard the human will and they are believe in social determinism. According to these issues, this study attempts to consider the social and individual responsibility against social determinism Conclusion: By disregarding or minimizing the concept of human will, determinism disregarded the concept of ethical responsibility in our social and individual life. Such events have broad consequences for social and individual life