Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants
Understanding the Phenomenon of Existential Trust
Department
Philosophy Department
College
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Date Range
2012-2013
Disciplines
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Abstract
Many contemporary treatments of trust fail to account for a global and pervasive sense of trust. This paper is concerned with remedying this lack by providing a sketch of the phenomenon of trust in its most comprehensive and diffuse form: existential trust. I will unpack this idea of existential trust and distinguish its four affective characteristics: supportive upholding, vulnerable openness, attuned orientation, and demand. Finally, I will argue that in order to explain its global and pervasive character, existential trust is best understood on the model of Heidegger concept of mood.
Conference Name
19th Annual Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
Conference Location
Unicoi State Park, GA
ScholarWorks Citation
Courtright, Jeffrey, "Understanding the Phenomenon of Existential Trust" (2013). Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants. 1229.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/fsdg/1229
