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Everyone understands what it is like to be accountable to someone, but often we think of accountability as something punitive.
Living Accountably defends the view that it is possible, under the right conditions to live accountably, welcoming accountability to those with proper standing, including being accountable to God (or some "higher power").
List of contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- 1: Introduction: Accountability as a Relationship and a Virtue
- 2: Accountability and Moral Philosophy: Why Accountability Is a Significant Virtue
- 3: Standing, Domains, and Accountability: Filling in the Story
- 4: Accountability under Other Names and at Other Times and Places
- 5: Accountability's Relation to Other Virtues and Vices
- 6: Global Accountability
- 7: Transcendent Views of Global Accountability
- 8: Empirical Issues
- 9: Conclusions: The Promise of Accountability
About the author
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, C. Stephen Evans received his Bachelor's degree from Wheaton College in 1969 and his PhD from Yale University in philosophy in 1974 as a Danforth Fellow. He is currently University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Baylor University, where he has taught since 2001, and is also a Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Society at the University of Notre Dame Australia. Evans's most recently published book was Kierkegaard and Spirituality: Accountability as the Meaning of Human Existence. Several of his books have won prizes and his works have been translated into multiple languages, including Spanish, Finnish, Russian, and Polish.
Summary
Everyone understands what it is like to be accountable to someone, but often we think of accountability as something punitive. Living Accountably defends the view that it is possible, under the right conditions to live accountably, welcoming accountability to those with proper standing, including being accountable to God (or some "higher power").
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...a ground-breaking book that can also serve as a short and readable introduction for undergraduates. Graduate students will appreciate the fact that Evans opens up new territory to explore, but leaves plenty of work for others to complete.
