Abstract

Outside of any liberal contractualism and of an impersonal and abstract intellectualism, confidence —present in the Humean notion of sympathy as a condition of human nature— shapes our character and is the foundation of our moral distinctions between virtue and vice. According to Baier, holds the author of this article, trust is a powerful catalyst for our moral thinking whenever it arises in the modulation of the powerful desire for companionship, and personal and interpersonal contradictions. From an innovative reading of Hume, one needs to learn how to become less the judge of morality and increasingly one of those who talk about their beliefs and suspicions with humor. Reflection alone destroys life. All moral order, then, emerges with parsimony of a community of people who, knowing of their socioeconomic and cultural matrices, judge of virtue and vice by shared standards.Faced with the horror of a life in which there reigns the widespread suspicion —it's the conjecture of this article´s author— women have enough desire, sensitivity and competence as well as the conviction and courage to participate in a sentimental education of humanity that allows expect benefits of a strong and sustainable confidence through appropriate conversation and writing, thus establishing an innovative and rigorous moral thinking.