Dilemmas of Trust

by Trudy Govier

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...

• 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

an accessible treatment

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.