# Moral accountability

- Id: `accountability`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/moral-accountability/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `74298103e13fcc0e13f96da9ce0d541bc408534a002a163a317dd061ad509787`

## Summary

Moral accountability holds that actions, intentions, and omissions can be subject to an ultimate judgement.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 6,381 passages across 61 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Brutus, or On Eminent Orators. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:jesus.wisdom:3",
    "passage:jesus.matthew:12",
    "passage:jesus.judith:16"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "accountability",
    "rendre compte",
    "jour du jugement",
    "day of judgment",
    "يوم الدين",
    "حساب"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 61,
    "passages": 6381,
    "thinkers": 20,
    "traditions": 10
}
```

## Related traditions

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        "id": "political-thought",
        "name": "Political thought and democracy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/political-thought-and-democracy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "greek-roman-traditions",
        "name": "Greek and Roman traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/greek-and-roman-traditions/"
    },
    {
        "id": "stoicism",
        "name": "Stoicism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/stoicism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epicureanism",
        "name": "Epicureanism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/epicureanism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "psychology",
        "name": "Psychology and psychoanalysis",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/psychology-and-psychoanalysis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "skepticism",
        "name": "Skepticism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/skepticism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "islam",
        "name": "Islam",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/islam/"
    },
    {
        "id": "platonism",
        "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/socratic-and-platonic-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "christianity",
        "name": "Christianity",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/christianity/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
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    {
        "id": "abraham_lincoln.papers_authored",
        "title": "Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents",
        "author": "Abraham Lincoln",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/abraham-lincoln/lincoln-authored-papers/"
    },
    {
        "id": "abraham_lincoln.papers_context",
        "title": "Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents",
        "author": "Correspondents and archival record",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/abraham-lincoln-archive-correspondents/incoming-mail-and-context/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.brutus",
        "title": "Brutus, or On Eminent Orators",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/brutus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_finibus",
        "title": "On Ends",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-finibus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.answers_to_objections",
        "title": "Answers to Objections Concerning the Christian Religion, by Elizabeth Carter",
        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/answers-to-objections/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.talbot_letters",
        "title": "Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot",
        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/talbot-letters/"
    },
    {
        "id": "elizabeth_carter.montagu_letters",
        "title": "Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Montagu",
        "author": "Elizabeth Carter",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/elizabeth-carter/montagu-letters/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epictetus.discourses",
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        "author": "Epictetus",
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    },
    {
        "id": "epicurus.letter_to_herodotus",
        "title": "Letter to Herodotus",
        "author": "Epicurus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epicurus/letter-to-herodotus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epicurus.letter_to_pythocles",
        "title": "Letter to Pythocles",
        "author": "Epicurus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epicurus/letter-to-pythocles/"
    },
    {
        "id": "sartre.existentialisme_humanisme",
        "title": "Existentialism Is a Humanism",
        "author": "Jean-Paul Sartre",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jean-paul-sartre/existentialisme-humanisme/"
    },
    {
        "id": "locke.essay_human_understanding",
        "title": "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding",
        "author": "John Locke",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/john-locke/essay-human-understanding/"
    },
    {
        "id": "locke.second_treatise",
        "title": "Second Treatise of Government",
        "author": "John Locke",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/john-locke/second-treatise/"
    },
    {
        "id": "jung.psychology_of_the_unconscious",
        "title": "Psychology of the Unconscious: Transformations and Symbols of the Libido",
        "author": "Carl Gustav Jung",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jung/psychology-of-the-unconscious/"
    },
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        "id": "montaigne.essais",
        "title": "The Essays",
        "author": "Michel de Montaigne",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/montaigne/essais/"
    },
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        "id": "muhammad.quran",
        "title": "The Qur’an",
        "author": "Muhammad",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/muhammad/quran/"
    },
    {
        "id": "musonius_rufus.discourses",
        "title": "Discourses of Musonius Rufus Reported by Lucius",
        "author": "Musonius Rufus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/musonius-rufus/discourses/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.critias",
        "title": "Critias",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/critias/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.epinomis",
        "title": "Epinomis, an Ancient Appendix to the Laws",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/epinomis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.epistles",
        "title": "Letters Attributed to Plato",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/epistles/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.laws",
        "title": "Laws",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/laws/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.lysis",
        "title": "Lysis",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/lysis/"
    },
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        "id": "plato.republic",
        "title": "Republic",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/republic/"
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        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/sophist/"
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        "title": "Symposium",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/symposium/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.cato_younger",
        "title": "Cato the Younger",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/cato-younger/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.de_brevitate_vitae",
        "title": "On the Shortness of Life",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-brevitate-vitae/"
    },
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        "id": "seneca.de_ira",
        "title": "On Anger",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-ira/"
    },
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        "id": "seneca.de_tranquillitate_animi",
        "title": "On Tranquillity of Mind",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-tranquillitate-animi/"
    },
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        "id": "seneca.de_vita_beata",
        "title": "On the Happy Life",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-vita-beata/"
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        "id": "seneca.epistulae_morales",
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        "author": "Seneca",
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    },
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        "id": "seneca.naturales_quaestiones",
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/naturales-quaestiones/"
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    },
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        "id": "socrates.plato_phaedo",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-phaedo/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_republic",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Republic",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-republic/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_symposium",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Symposium",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-symposium/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_theaetetus",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Theaetetus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-theaetetus/"
    },
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/xenophon/xenophon-oeconomicus/"
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        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/spinoza/emendation-fr/"
    },
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        "id": "thomas_aquinas.summa_theologiae",
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    },
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        "id": "bible.gospels",
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        "author": "Gospel traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/gospel-traditions/the-four-gospels/"
    }
]
```