a.k.a. frankness, parrhêsia

Candor means not waiting to be asked, but anticipating what a person wants to know even if they do not yet know enough to know that they want to know it.

“Radical Honesty” might be worth a google search here.

Complementary virtues¶

• empathy
• honesty
• straightforwardness

Contrasting vices¶

• being “technically honest”
• artlessness (a vice of excess; being frank in a tactless, overly-blunt way)

Virtues possibly in tension¶

• silence
• tact

How to acquire or strengthen it¶

TBD

Notes and links¶

• Notes on Sincerity and such (David, LessWrong)

Mentioned elsewhere¶

TBD

Inspirational quotes¶

• “The great man is the one who has never lost the innocence and candor of his childhood.” ―Mencius (孟子)
• “A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it; but if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he that slights that witness!” ―Seneca