How Can I Be Trusted?

A Virtue Theory of Trustworthiness

AvNancy Nyquist Potter

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

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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Utgivningsdatum:2002-11-19
Mått:150 x 227 x 13 mm
Vikt:299 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Feminist Constructions
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780742511514

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Nancy Nyquist Potter is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Louisville.

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How Can I Be Trusted? makes a valuable contribution to virtue ethics, as well as to our understanding of trust in a variety of relationships. Potter's experiences as a crisis counselor and philosophy teacher provide her with illuminating case studies, which serve wonderfully well to display the difficult and shifting demands of trustworthiness.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 A Virtue Theory of TrustworthinessChapter 3 Justified Lies and Broken TrustChapter 4 When Relations of Trust Pull Us in Different DirectionsChapter 5 The Trustworthy TeacherChapter 6 Trustworthy Relations Among IntimatesChapter 7 Giving Uptake and Its Relation to Trustworthiness

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