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Recognition and Trust: Hegel and Confucius on the Normative Basis of Ethical Life

Authors

Procyshyn A. , WENNING, MARIO

External publication

No

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Dao

Scope

Article

Nature

Científica

JCR Quartile

SJR Quartile

SJR Impact

0.311

Publication date

01/01/2019

Scopus Id

2-s2.0-85048616717

Abstract

This essay offers a comparative analysis of the notion of trust in Hegel and Confucius. It shows that Hegel’s two senses of trust (Zutrauen and Vertrauen) depend upon his theory of recognition and recognitive struggle. The competitive thrust of Hegel’s account of trust, it argues, introduces a series of problems that cannot be adequately resolved within his theory, since it presupposes the kinds of trusting relations—self-, intersubjective- and world-trust—that it purports to explain. This essay then turns to the Confucian notions of xin ? and li ? to address the problems in the Hegelian account. It concludes by outlining the Confucian account’s salience for critical social theory. © 2019, Springer Nature B.V.

Keywords

Confucius; Critical theory; Hegel; Recognition; Trust; Xin ?

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