The Metaphysics of Trust
Trust lies at the heart of economic, political and religious life. Everyday life is shaped by purported grounds for trust, including presuppositions about wealth, power and necessity.
This book completes Goodchild’s Credit and Faith trilogy on the reintegration of economics, philosophy and theology within the context of global ecological and economic crisis.
To be thoughtful is to invest trust well: people are united and divided, constrained and liberated by the grounds for trust they deploy. Goodchild diagnoses the root of the ills of modernity: it seeks to ground trust on distrust. Trust is placed in what can be had rather than where one can dwell; in what can be done rather than in belonging; and in what is necessary rather than what can be created.
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30 June 2021
Rowman and Littlefield International
You don’t need obscure concepts to think about abstract matters: contemporary life, with its urgent problems and crises, is sufficiently complex and thought-provoking.
Here, I attempt to write a concrete and grounded philosophy in a voice learned from reading Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Weil.
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