accountability

combines responsibility with a willingness to give account for that which one is responsible for

a.k.a. answerability, responsibility

This may also imply that you have respect for some oversight authority or to somebody(s) you feel responsible toward.

Complementary virtues

Contrasting vices

  • unaccountability

Virtues possibly in tension

How to acquire or strengthen it

TBD

Notes and links

Mentioned elsewhere

TBD

Inspirational quotes

  • Phil Tetlock (quoted in Haidt’s The Righteous Mind): defines accountability as the “explicit expectation that one will be called upon to justify one’s beliefs, feelings, or actions to others,” coupled with an expectation that people will reward or punish us based on how well we justify ourselves