Podcast: The Practice of Trust

In this special episode of Ideas sin Tiempo – My Timeless Idea, philosopher Martin Hartmann, President of the University of Lucerne and guest of the Tocqueville Chair, joins Nicole Gardella for a conversation on trust as a timeless idea that shapes personal relationships, institutions, and democratic life. Drawing on his philosophical work and in dialogue with thinkers such as Niklas Luhmann, Hartmann reflects on trust as an attitude of accepted vulnerability, its moral and emotional dimensions, the difference between trust and reliance, and the challenges of sustaining trust in complex societies marked by institutional crisis and technological change.