Interests are shared either causally or by genuine adoption of another’s welfare

Evidence

When I trust you in the sense of believing that your interests encapsulate mine in at least the matter with respect to which I trust you, we can, naturally, be said to share interests to some extent. We might share interests in two quite different ways. First, we may merely share them causally, because what serves your interest serves mine as well. Second, one of us may genuinely adopt the other’s interests as our own (see further Hardin 1999c). If I love you, I may literally encapsulate your interests in mine to some extent in the sense that I value your happiness so much that I act as though for your benefit without full regard for my own benefit. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 656

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Distinguishes causal interest-sharing from encapsulated-interest love sharing — the core distinction that runs through the whole chapter.
• XREF: The ‘encapsulated interest’ definition directly engages Hardin’s model that the reader is comparing against Saramago’s blindness scenario, where the wife’s love encapsulating her husband’s interests is what sustains order.

Related

• Trust rests on encapsulated interests that can be shared causally or adopted. (similarity 0.91)
• Trusting someone means their interests encapsulate one’s own interests. (similarity 0.84)
• Love makes one trustworthy by genuinely incorporating the beloved’s interests (similarity 0.82)
• Causal interdependence of welfare is not trust (similarity 0.81)
• Trust involves beliefs about the other’s incentives toward me, not mere expectations (similarity 0.81)
• Trust rests on the trusted party’s self-interest, not on their personal character (similarity 0.81)
• Trust rests on the trusted person’s commitments and incentives, not just expected behavior. (similarity 0.80)
• Trust is encapsulated interest achievable through many incentive mechanisms (similarity 0.80)
• Trust is nearly complete when one party assumes the other’s interests as their own (similarity 0.80)
• Ordinary trust is narrowly scoped while love-based trust spans broadly (similarity 0.80)
• Trust requires knowing the other’s incentives to honor it (similarity 0.79)
• Interests are only a proxy for well-being, not the whole story (similarity 0.79)
• Trust is encapsulated interest in the relationship’s continuation. (similarity 0.79)
• Trustworthiness is judging one’s interests as depending on fulfilling trust (similarity 0.79)
• Thick-relationship trust is a special case of encapsulated interest (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Reciprocated cooperation teaches one to internalize others’ interests #exemplifies (0.85) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 613