ABSTRACT

Since the publication of Annette Baier’s agenda-setting article entitled ‘Trust and Antitrust’, trust has become an increasingly popular topic, not only in moral philosophy and epistemology but also in the fields of economics, psychology, anthropology and the social sciences. Yet, the importance of K.E. Løgstrup’s highly original work on trust is still not fully recognised. In this article, we try to remedy this oversight by comparing three dominant trends in the broad and varied field of contemporary writings on trust with Løgstrup’s conception of the phenomenon of basic trust. The three trends are the attempts to develop theories providing explanations or justifications of trust and the almost all-pervasive individualism of contemporary thinking on trust. Our aim is to show how Løgstrup’s concept of basic trust, along with his understanding of vulnerability, interdependence, and the relational character of our lives gives us reasons to be critical of these dominant trends. Furthermore, we argue that Løgstrup offers us valuable insights into the fundamental and ubiquitous, but often overlooked phenomenon of basic trust, and that this form of trust is essentially relational in character.

摘要

自安妮特·拜尔（Annette Baier）发表题为“信任与反托拉斯”的议程设置文章以来，信任已成为越来越流行的话题，不仅在道德哲学和认识论上，而且在经济学，心理学，人类学和社会科学领域。然而，柯格斯鲁普（KELøgstrup）关于信任的高度原创性工作的重要性仍未得到充分认识。在本文中，我们试图通过比较当代关于信任的广泛领域和广泛领域中的三种主要趋势与勒格斯特鲁普的基本信任现象的概念来纠正这种疏忽。这三种趋势是尝试发展提供信任的解释或辩护以及几乎无所不在的个人主义的理论的尝试。关于信任的当代思考。我们的目的是向我们展示洛格斯楚普（Løgstrup）的基本信任概念，以及他对脆弱性，相互依存关系以及我们生活的关系特征的理解，从而为我们提出了批评这些主导趋势的理由。此外，我们认为Løgstrup为我们提供了对基本信任和普遍存在但经常被忽视的基本信任现象的宝贵见解，并且这种信任形式本质上是关系性的。