Essential Care
eBook - PDF

Essential Care

An Ethics of Human Nature

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Essential Care

An Ethics of Human Nature

About this book

The issue of care serves as a critique of the agonizing situation of our civilization, but it also serves as an inspiring principle for a new paradigm of living together. This is what Boff presents in this groundbreaking new work. Boff dreams of a world that is still to come, a world where we no longer need electronic devices to overcome our solitude and fulfill the human essence of care and kindness. Essential Care envisions a globalized society in the great common home of the earth and of a world in which care has been recognized as a fundamental ethos of the human being and as an indispensable compassion for all beings of creation.

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Table of contents

  1. Boff front
  2. About the author, Title page, Copyright, Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. Note to reader
  5. Foreword
  6. 1: Carelessness: a sign of our times
  7. 2: To care: the ethos of the human being
  8. 3: The fable-myth about ‘care’
  9. 4: An ingenious slave: Gaius Julius Hyginus
  10. 5: Explaining the fable-myth about care
  11. 6: Dimensions of care
  12. 7: The nature of care
  13. 8: Resonances of care
  14. 9: Concretizations of care
  15. 10: Pathologies of care
  16. 11: Exemplary figures of care
  17. Conclusion
  18. Glossary
  19. Notes and further reading
  20. Index