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Living Accountably - Accountability as a Virtue (Hardcover)
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In contemporary culture, accountability is usually understood in
terms of holding people who have done something wrong accountable
for their actions. As such, it is virtually synonymous with
punishing someone. Living Accountably argues that accountability
should also be understood as a significant, forward-looking virtue,
an excellence possessed by those who willingly embrace being
accountable to those who have proper standing, when that standing
is exercised appropriately. Those who have this virtue are people
who strive to live accountably. The book gives a fine-grained
description of the virtue and how it is exercised, including an
account of the motivational profile of the one who has the virtue.
It examines the relation of accountability to other virtues, such
as honesty and humility, as well as opposing vices, such as
self-deception, arrogance, and servility. Though the virtue of
accountability is compatible with individual autonomy, recognizing
the importance of the virtue does justice to the social character
of human persons. C. Stephen Evans also explores the history of
this virtue in other cultures and historical eras, providing
evidence that the virtue is widely recognized, even if it is
somewhat eclipsed in modern western societies. Accountability is
also a virtue that connects ethical life with religious life for
many people, since it is common for people to have a sense that
they are accountable in a global way for how they live their lives.
Living Accountably explores the question as to whether global
accountability can be understood in a purely secular way, as
accountability to other humans, or whether it must be understood as
accountability to God, or some other transcendent reality.
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