The nomenclature of the Anthropocene for this geological epoch marks in a novel way the global impact of human activity on the world. Consequently, it creatively raises the alarm bell of global environmental devastation. However, the narrative implicit in the Anthropocene presents challenges to use it as a departure point for developing an ethics of responsibility, as it contains morally relevant but ambiguous etiologies, phenomenological challenges to discrete human agency, and the potential erasure of both causes and victims of global environmental degradation. This challenge compounds the challenges to traditional models of responsibility‐as‐imputation by global forms of environmental degradation signaled in the Anthropocene. Our new epoch demands new models of responsibility. This article draws upon neglected work by Paul Ricoeur to reconstruct a twofold model of responsibility: (1) responsibility‐as‐imputation and (2) responsibility for the fragile other and the domains that amplify fragility. It shows that a twofold model can more completely respond to harms elicited by anthropogenic environmental degradation by maintaining the benefits of traditional models of responsibility‐as‐accountability while dramatically expanding the subject and objects of responsibility through attention to the fragile and thus better serving us as we navigate responsibility in the Anthropocene.

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人类世的责任：保罗·利科和全球环境恶化中的责任召唤

这个地质时代的人类世命名法以一种新颖的方式标志着人类活动对世界的全球影响。因此，它创造性地敲响了全球环境破坏的警钟。然而，人类世隐含的叙事对将其用作发展责任伦理学的出发点提出了挑战，因为它包含道德上相关但模糊的病因学、对离散人类机构的现象学挑战，以及对人类社会的原因和受害者的潜在消除。全球环境恶化。这一挑战加剧了人类世中全球环境退化形式对传统责任归咎模型的挑战。我们的新时代需要新的责任模式。本文借鉴了保罗·利科被忽视的工作，重建了责任的双重模型：（1）责任归咎；（2）对脆弱他人和放大脆弱性领域的责任。它表明，双重模型可以更全面地应对人为环境退化造成的危害，既保持传统责任模型的好处，又通过关注脆弱群体极大地扩展了责任的主体和客体，从而更好地为我们服务。我们在人类世中承担责任。