A secular ethic of republican citizenship can substitute for Weber’s Protestant work ethic.

Evidence

Doria and Genovesi suppose that trust is the basis of the wellordered republic (Pagden 1988, 129). The Italian words are not exact equivalents of the English “trust,” but we might suppose Doria’s sense is roughly that of the encapsulated-interest account presented in chapter 1, because for him trust is the motive to behave toward members of the society at large in much the same way that one behaves toward members of one’s own kin group, with whom, of course, one has ongoing reciprocal exchange relations (Pagden 1988, 138). This secular ethic of classical republicanism performs the role of Max Weber’s (1951, 237) Protestantism: it shatters “the fetters of the kin.” — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 837

Categorization

• XREF: The extension of kin-group reciprocity to the wider republic is direct evidence for the reader’s analytical project — encapsulated interest generalized is what the sighted wife performs in Saramago’s novel when she extends kin-loyalty to strangers. — connects to: Husserl’s Lebenswelt analysis parallels Weber and Thomas’s sociology — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 1414
• DEFINE: Shows Hardin mapping Doria’s pre-modern republican ethic onto his own encapsulated-interest account of trust — a useful definitional bridge for the integration.