Trust in Public Life - Couverture souple

Gilbert, Claire

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1913368750 ISBN 13 : 9781913368753

Editeur : Haus Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

How important is trust in public life? How do public servants engender and sustain it? What do they do when it falls? This book of five essays addresses these important questions at a time when trust in our public officials is at an all-time low.

In her essay 'The Roots of Trust', Anna Rowlands argues that our undoubted loss of trust is not an invention of the last 50 years, but a feature of modernity that we cannot solve by artificial abstract means but only through encounters with real people, and through loving acts of committed entrustment. In 'Trust in Oneself', Claire Gilbert writes that leaders need to have the self-trust and confidence to rule, but, she notes, so often self-trust comes out of a lack of self-knowledge, while self-knowledge can prevent good leaders from stepping forward, precisely because they know their own failings all too well. In 'Trust in Institutions', Anthony Ball offers a virtue-based guide to rebuilding trust in institutions by means of four virtues: honesty (intelligent openness), humility, compassion, and competence. Institutions are given a mandate by the public and proceed to earn trust by compassionately and competently implementing this mandate. In 'Trust in People', James Hawkey argues that trust in each other, between groups that make up 'the people' is a choice: trust can't be injected like a vaccine. To trust is to risk, to become vulnerable, to place the centre of our universe somewhere other than ourselves.

Together the essays provide deep reflections on the nature of trust in the context of public life, agreeing that it is engendered through real encounters, not in the abstract or by force, and offer guidance on how to make those encounters real, whether they be within oneself, between people, or within institutions and the people they serve.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Anna Rowlands is Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Practice at Durham Univeristy.

Claire Gilbert is Founding Director of Westminster Abbey Institute.

The Rt Revd Anthony Ball is Canon of Westminster and Assistant in the Diocese of Egypt.

Revd Dr James Hawkey is Canon Theologian of Westminster.

Josie Rourke is an English theatre and film director whose credits include the Academy Award and BAFTA-nominated Mary Queen of Scots (2018)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Haus Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1913368750
• ISBN 13: 9781913368753
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 90
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible