Trust is a verb and a daily recalibration, not a state you arrive at. The test of a healthy configuration is whether you can still think the thought after you close the laptop.
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Annette Baier, Trust and Antitrust (1986), on the moral structure of trust
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Plato, The Republic, the four cardinal virtues read as the architecture of trust
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Giordano Bruno, De vinculis in genere (1591), the mechanics of binding a will
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Ioan Petru Culianu, Eros and Magic in the Renaissance (1984)
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John Bowlby, attachment theory and the secure base
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Confucius on li: reciprocal practice, the bow you mean against the bow performed
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Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest, the chain of suspicion
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Yoshua Bengio, LawZero (2025)
THIS WEEK’S EXERCISE