Culpability descends from the Latin concept of fault (culpa), which's still found today in the phrase mea culpa (literally, "my own fault"). The concept of culpability's intimately tied up with notions of agency, freedom and free will. All are commonly held to be necessary, but not sufficient, conditions for culpability. In explanations and predictions of human action and inaction culpability's a measure of the degree to which an agent, such as a person, can be held morally or legally responsibl… (More on Culpability)