Nancy Nyquist Potter

How Can I Be Trusted? (eBook, PDF)

A Virtue Theory of Trustworthiness

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216208426
• Artikelnr.: 75144425

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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