History of Christian

Exercise 5.1

A. Evaluating Trust. For each of the following examples, make a case for why the character or characters do or do not display trust. If a character exhibits a vice 198 that is contrary to trust, identify the vice. Cite relevant material from the text in section 5.1 in defense of your view.

1. After being given a confident “no” from his neighbor when he asked whether it was trash day, John proceeded to look it up online.

2. After being told about an objection Pedro has raised to the new school policy she favors, Helen responds, “Didn’t he move here from South America? What does he know?”

3. Brent, an architect, is worried on the basis of his calculations that his kids’ playhouse won’t hold up long without repairs. He catches his kids in the playhouse and disciplines them for being there when they shouldn’t. But when they protest that they were just up there—and even jumping—and it was fine, he decides to let them keep playing without making the repairs.

4. After her Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Sheila is encouraged by another member of the group to try just a half pint of beer with her at the bar. “You’ll be fine,” the group member says. Since the other member is experienced, Sheila concludes that having the drink is probably safe.

5. When his cousin, a financial trader, tells Sid that he should make a change to his portfolio in the next quarter, Sid shrugs it off, thinking, He would say that. He’s rich.

6. Francine has worked very hard on her paper, trying her best to ensure it doesn’t have any flaws. As part of a class exercise, she receives feedback from two of her peers. While she doesn’t think there are any errors in the paper, she eagerly looks through her peers’ comments, open to the possibility that they may have caught something she missed.

7. Mike, who has always fancied himself a good leader, has been tasked with heading up a team to design a new drug. His team members keep noticing, though, that he’s constantly looking over their shoulders and interrupting them to ask for explanations for why they are doing things the way they are doing them. He can’t seem to let them do their part of the work.

8. Jenny is a member of the jury. “I just don’t trust him,” she says of the defendant during the deliberations. “Wearing clothes like that and unashamed of his unorthodox relationships. . . . What a weirdo!”

9. Scott’s grade wasn’t quite what he was hoping, and his paper came back with a good number of suggestions for future improvement from his professor. Rather than look through the suggestions, Scott concludes that what’s really going on is that the professor doesn’t like him.

10. Pamela’s first book comes in for severe criticism by an experienced critic. She thinks to herself, This critic is just getting old and senile.

Following the instructions for 5.1 exercise , write responses to question 1, 2, 3, and 4.

A. Evaluating Trust. For each of the following examples, make a case for why the character or characters do or do not display trust. If a character exhibits a vice that is contrary to trust, identify the vice. Cite relevant material from the text in section 5.1 in defense of your view.

1. Brent, an architect, is worried on the basis of his calculations that his kids’ playhouse won’t hold up long without repairs. He catches his kids in the playhouse and disciplines them for being there when they shouldn’t. But when they protest that they were just up there—and even jumping —and it was fine, he decides to let them keep playing without making the repairs.

2. After her Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Sheila is encouraged by another member of the group to try just a half pint of beer with her at the bar. “You’ll be fine,” the group member says. Since the other member is experienced, Sheila concludes that having the drink is probably safe.

3.Scott’s grade wasn’t quite what he was hoping, and his paper came back with a good number of suggestions for future improvement from his professor. Rather than look through the suggestions, Scott concludes that what’s really going on is that the professor doesn’t like him.

4. Pamela’s first book comes in for severe criticism by an experienced critic. She thinks to herself, This critic is just getting old and senile.