Why (and how to) trust Institutions? Hospitals, Schools, and liberal Trust
This is a paper about how we relate to institutions. Its aim is two-fold: accounting for what it is to ‘trust an institution’, and cashing out the right attitude to have towards public institutions. The descriptive account shows that ‘trusting institutions’ is a complex and ambivalent phenomenon, wh...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Rosenberg & Sellier
2018-08-01
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| Series: | Rivista di Estetica |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/estetica/3455 |
| Summary: | This is a paper about how we relate to institutions. Its aim is two-fold: accounting for what it is to ‘trust an institution’, and cashing out the right attitude to have towards public institutions. The descriptive account shows that ‘trusting institutions’ is a complex and ambivalent phenomenon, which oscillates between proper trust (as a two-place relation) and mere reliance, depending on the social function of the institution at hand. The normative proposal highlights the merit of a liberal form of trust in public institutions, as opposed to totalitarian and libertarian attitudes. To do this, the paper, reviewing a large set of public and private institutions, focuses on two cases, healthcare and educational institutions. |
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| ISSN: | 0035-6212 2421-5864 |