Dilemmas of Trust
Trust facilitates communication, love, friendship, and co-operation and is fundamentally important to human relationships and personal development. Using examples from daily life, interviews, literature, and film, Govier describes the role of trust in friendship and in family relationships as well as the connection between self-trust, self-respect, and self-esteem. She examines the reasons we trust or distrust others and ourselves, and the expectations and vulnerabilities that accompany those attitudes. But trust should not be blind. Acknowledging that distrust is often warranted, Govier describes strategies for coping with distrust and designing workable relationships despite it. She also examines situations in which the integrity of interpersonal relationships has been violated by serious breaches of trust and explores themes of forgiveness, reconciliation, and the restoration of trust. By encouraging reflection on our own attitudes of trust and distrust, this fascinating book points the way to a better understanding of our relationships and ourselves.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0773517979
ISBN13:9780773517974
Release Date:October 1998
Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
Length:1 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"
Customer Reviews
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an accessible treatment
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
The author, described on the back flap as "an independent philosopher" from Calgary, Alberta, has written a straightforward discussion of the context, bases, and threats to trust, mostly from the perspective of the individual, rather than society as a whole. She deals with most of the elements, psychological, cultural, religious that are brought to bear in personal decisions to trust or not to trust. The examples are drawn from daily life, many of them relating to marriage and friendship. It is not pop psychology, nor is written in a way that is comprehensible only to PhD's in philosophy. Altogether approachable for readers who do not need either Chicken Soup style sentimentality nor obscure terminology as a certificate of authenticity.
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