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

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 ser...

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Published in:Dao : a journal of comparative philosophy 2019-03, Vol.18 (1), p.1-22
Main Authors: Procyshyn, Alexei, Wenning, Mario
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chinese
Confucianism
Confucius (551-479 BC)
Critical theory
Education
Ethics
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831)
Non-Western Philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy of Religion
Recognition
Religious Studies
Salience
Trust
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Summary: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 心 and li 理 to address the problems in the Hegelian account. It concludes by outlining the Confucian account’s salience for critical social theory.
ISSN:1540-3009
1569-7274
DOI:10.1007/s11712-018-9644-4