Personal well-being often depends on the enjoyment of specific others

Evidence

It is also a mistake to suppose that my well-being is merely selfish. Among the things that make me enjoy life are the enjoyments of certain others. I might enjoy a lovely dinner, but I might enjoy it even more with you. Or I might want my son to enjoy the evening and might use some of my resources to make that possible. My well-being will often depend on my sharing intentions with you to do things with or for you. — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 147

Categorization

• DEFINE: Crucially clarifies that encapsulated-interest trust is not a purely selfish account — the truster’s welfare includes relational goods.
• XREF: connects to: Happiness is only attainable through fetishized attachment to objects — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 148; Psychic well-being fundamentally depends on the existence of public space — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1503