Kirton, A orcid.org/0000-0001-6776-3414 (2020) Matters of Trust as Matters of Attachment Security. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 28 (5). pp. 583-602. ISSN 0967-2559
Abstract
I argue for an account of the vulnerability of trust, as a product of our need for secure social attachments. This account seeks to explain why it is true that, when we trust or distrust someone, we are susceptible to being betrayed by them, rather than merely disappointed or frustrated in our goals. What we are concerned about in matters of trust is, at the basic level, whether we matter, in a non-instrumental way, to that individual, or to the group of which we are members. We have this concern as a result of a drive to form secure social attachments. This makes us vulnerable in the characteristic way of being susceptible to betrayal, because how the other acts in such matters can demonstrate our lack of worth to them, or to the group, thereby threatening the security of our attachment, and eliciting the reactive attitudes characteristic of betrayal.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Trust, distrust, vulnerability, betrayal, commitment, attachment |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 15 Sep 2020 09:07 |
Last Modified: | 29 Jul 2022 09:15 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09672559.2020.1802971 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:165398 |