Title: Trust and happiness in the history of European political thought /
Authors: Kontler, László; Somos, Mark
Year: 2018
Subjects: Happiness Political aspects Europe History.; Political culture Europe History.; Political science Europe Philosophy History.; Trust Political aspects Europe History.
Abstract: The notions of happiness and trust as cements of the social fabric and political legitimacy have a long history in Western political thought. However, despite the great contemporary relevance of both subjects, and burgeoning literatures in the social sciences around them, historians and historians of thought have, with some exceptions, unduly neglected them. In 'Trust and Happiness in the History of European Political Thought', editors Laszlo Kontler and Mark Somos bring together twenty scholars from different generations and academic traditions to redress this lacuna by contextualising historically the discussion of these two notions from ancient Greece to Soviet Russia. Confronting this legacy and deep reservoir of thought will serve as a tool of optimising the terms of current debates.
Contents: Introduction : trust, happiness, and the history of European political thought / Laszlo Kontler and Mark Somos -- Toleration, trust and the travails of living together globally / John Dunn -- Ptolemy of Lucca's distrust in politics and the medieval discourse on government / Bee Yun -- Natural suspicion and reasonable trust : Machiavelli on trust in politics / Erica Benner -- Hugo Grotius on trust, its causes and effects / Hans Blom -- Fidem observandam esse : trust and fear in Hobbes and Locke / Peter Schroder -- The concept of trust in Hobbes's political philosophy / Eva Odzuck -- The formation of Leibniz's mature ethics and his Specimen polonorum / Gabor Gango -- The secularization of happiness in early eighteenth-century Italian political thought : revisiting the foundations of civil society / Adriana Luna-Fabritius -- Trust and happiness in Nikolai Karamzin's political philosophy / Vladimir Ryzhkov --^