A01=Nancy Nyquist Potter
Author_Nancy Nyquist Potter
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- ISBN 9780742511514
- Weight: 299g
- Dimensions: 150 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 19 Nov 2002
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Nancy Nyquist Potter is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Louisville.
