How Can I Be Trusted?
A Virtue Theory of Trustworthiness
1st Edition
Published on 19. November 2002
1 pages
979-8-216-20842-6 (ISBN)
Description
This work examines the concept of trust in the light of virtue theory, and takes our responsibility to be trustworthy as central. Rather than thinking of trust as risk-taking, Potter views it as equally a matter of responsibility-taking. How Can I Be Trusted? illustrates that relations of trust are never independent from considerations of power, and that the trustee has a moral obligation not to exploit the vulnerability of the trusting person. Asking ourselves what we can do to be trustworthy allows us to move beyond adversarial trust relationships and toward a more democratic, just, and peaceful society.
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11/2002
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Nancy Nyquist Potter is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Louisville.
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 A Virtue Theory of Trustworthiness
Chapter 3 Justified Lies and Broken Trust
Chapter 4 When Relations of Trust Pull Us in Different Directions
Chapter 5 The Trustworthy Teacher
Chapter 6 Trustworthy Relations Among Intimates
Chapter 7 Giving Uptake and Its Relation to Trustworthiness
Chapter 2 A Virtue Theory of Trustworthiness
Chapter 3 Justified Lies and Broken Trust
Chapter 4 When Relations of Trust Pull Us in Different Directions
Chapter 5 The Trustworthy Teacher
Chapter 6 Trustworthy Relations Among Intimates
Chapter 7 Giving Uptake and Its Relation to Trustworthiness
