Trust Who or What Might Support Us?
- New York Fordham University Press 2013
- 190p
includes index and biblioraphy
Part 1: Varieties of trust and distrust .....7 1. Trust A first approach ......9 Turning to .....11 A note on distrust ......13 Kinds of trust ....14 You are trustworthy .....15 Who is trustworthy .....17 Risk and freedom ......18 Habits ......19 Reciprocity .....21 Evaluation and decision .....23 Independent and free ....25 Verticala and horizontal Relations of trust ......26 Asymmetry and equality ....28 Functioning in society .....29 2. Entrusting ......33 Speaking about and speaking to ......35 Toward an ethics of trust ......39 Entrusting or accepting .....44 Part II: What and whom can we trust .....47 3 Trust in the society ......49 Whom can i trust .....50 Can we trust our society .....51 Trustworthy constitutions ....54 Social trust as hope ....58 4 Counting on nature .......60 Mother nature .....60 Technology .....64 5 Self-confidence ....68 Can i trust myself ......68 Can i trust that i will live well ......71 Which i gives the answer ......73 Choosing ......75 A few these about trust and dependence ......77 Humility or arrogance .....79 Can i trust my orientation ....81 Part III: Trust in philosophy and religion .....85 6 Trust in philosophy ......87 Descarte`s program of a new, certain and autonomous Philosophy .....89 7. Trust in search of insight .....98 Faith and belief ....99 The religious relation .....100 Faith and reason .....104 Trust in god .....107 8 Trust in god or the universe .....109 Education in traditions of basic trust .....110 The fading of religion in western culture ......112 Native trust and critical distrust ....116 is happiness possible .....119 Good and evil ......121 Death ......124 Evil .....130 Guilt .....133 Suffering ....135 Does our universe deserve trust .....148 Religion-based trust ....151 Does religious faith justify trust .....152 Faith in god as trust .....156 Atheist trust and distrust: Did god become an idol .....160 Other gods ....164 Is ther a philosophical way to god .....165 Atheism and trust in god ....167 Atheist praxis ....169 Christian praxis .....173 Gault and pardon .....176 Agnostic suspension and trust in loving hope ....179