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- Trust: Who or What Might Support Us?
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: Fordham University Press
summary
This phenomenological study begins by presenting trust as a characteristic form of interpersonal and communal relationship. In the second chapter, the scope is narrowed to someone's reliance on one or more trustworthy individuals. Chapters 3 to 5 explore specific aspects of trust, insofar as we confide in social structures or movements, the impersonal regularities and events of nature, or our own particular talents, motivations, and possibilities.In a world that is ravaged by the omnipresence of suffering and the most outrageous manifestations of evil, no philosopher can avoid the question of what kind of trust may be profound and strong enough to overcome the ultimate anxiety or despair that threatens all human existence. In the Western tradition of belief, thinking, faith, and searching for the first and ultimate, that question is approached here through reflection upon the radical difference between trust (or faith) in the universe (the totality) and faith (or trust) in God.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Instead of a Preface
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-6
- Part I: Varieties of Trust and Distrust
- 2. Entrusting
- pp. 33-46
- Part II: What and Whom Can We Trust
- 3. Trust in the Society
- pp. 49-59
- 4. Counting on Nature
- pp. 60-67
- 5. Self-Confidence
- pp. 68-84
- Part III: Trust in Philosophy and Religion
- 6. Trust in Philosophy
- pp. 87-97
- 7. Trust in Search of Insight
- pp. 98-108
- 8. Trust in God or the Universe?
- pp. 109-182
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823250431
Related ISBN(s)
9780823244881
MARC Record
OCLC
847594514
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2013-05-20
Language
English
Open Access
No