Jamal Awil

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Trusting others and trusting oneself develop together through mutual experience. [causal]

Trust in others is developed in conjunction with the formation of an inner sense of trustworthiness, which provides a basis of a stable self-identity subsequently. Hence very early on trust implies a mutuality of experience.

Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Moderni…, loc. 231