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Approaches to the concept of trust in philosophy are extremely diverse and developing rapidly. The variety of approaches reflects the fact that also our worries with trust are diverse, including the Hobbesian concern for the possibility of rational cooperation and Wittgenstein's treatment of the place of trust in knowledge claims. To speak of trust is not only to describe human action but also to take a perspective on it and to engage with it. The question to ask is not, 'What is trust?' but, 'What is implied when the vocabulary of trust is invoked?' Olli Lagerspetz breathes new life into the philosophical debate on trust by showing how questions about trust are at the centre of any in-depth analyses of the nature of human agency and human rationality and that these issues, in turn, lie at the heart of philosophical ethics. Ideal for those grappling with these issues for the first time, Trust, Ethics and Human Reason provides a thorough and impassioned assessment of the concept of trust in moral philosophy.
