Xin : being trustworthy

• Main Author: Sung, Winnie
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Philosophy; Trustworthiness; Confucian Moral Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144891
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This essay analyses the Confucian conception of xin 信, an attribute that broadly resembles what we would ordinarily call trustworthiness. More specifically, it focuses on providing an analysis of the psychology of someone who is xin and highlighting a feature of the Confucian conception of trustwort...