ACTION AS AN ELEMENT OF THE DOCTRINE OF STRICT CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY: (PHILOSOPHICAL-LINGUISTIC READING OF H. HART’S ACTS OF WILL AND RESPONSIBILITY (1960))

The article analyses a concept of action as a condition of criminal responsibility, as it is represented in 1960 essay Acts of Will and Responsibility by a British philosopher and jurist, H. Hart. The author’s conceptualization of action in doctrine and judicial practice of a precedential (primarily British) legal system is considered. Methodological principles and techniques of Hart’s study are explicated thus establishing its interpretation as an application of ideas of analytical linguistic philosophy to problems of criminal law.