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Trust facilitates the love, friendship, and co-operation that are fundamentally important to human relationships. When we trust, we take for granted that others will not harm us; we relax and feel safe. Distrust breeds fear and we withdraw. This book explores the profound effects trust and distrust have on relationships and on our very sense of self. By encouraging reflection on our own attitudes of trust and distrust, the author points the way to a deeper understanding of relationships and our orwn attitudes and role within them.
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Comments and Reviews
Govier . . . clarifies virtually everything about the concept and attitude of trust in interpersonal relationships, including family and self-trust. Her clear, direct, and nontechnical prose ranges from the prosaic to the interesting and even the poignant, and her work advances understanding of the subleties and place of trust in contemporary moral philosophy . . . She carefully examines ways that distrust can impede personal growth and maturity, showing strategies for coping with distrust.
Dilemmas of Trust is wide-ranging, imaginative, and humane - it takes into account many facets of personal experience and displays keen awareness of how complex many life situations can be. It speaks plainly and directly to the reader, draws on a wealth of examples, and holds one's attention from beginning to end. It is a pleasure to read.
Not only is it a thoughtful philosophical exploration of a difficult problem, spanning ethics, politics, and epistemology, but it is also a detailed practical study of real human problems. In this way it is useful not only to the theorist, but also to the intelligent layperson . . . It is refreshing to see philosophy put in service to real moral living. Govier is to be commended for, yet again, applying a sensitive philosophical analysis to theoretical and to practical concerns. April 2000.
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Ordering Information
Trudy Govier. Dilemmas of Trust.
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998.
ISBN: 0-7735-1797 (cloth)
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