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Essential care : an ethics of human nature / Leonardo Boff ; translation and notes, Alexandre Guilherme

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Waco, TX : Baylor University Press, ©2008Description: xi, 178 pISBN:
  • 9781602581425
  • 9781602581654
  • 1602581657
  • 1602581428
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 177.7 BOF
Contents:
The issue of care serves as a critique of the agonising situation of our civilisation, but it also serves as an inspiring principle for a fresh paradigm of living together. This book envisions a globalised society in the great common home of the earth and of a world in which care has been recognised as a fundamental ethos of the human being.
1. Carelessness: a sign of our times 2. To care: the ethos of the human being 3. The fable-myth about "care" 4. An ingenious slave: Gaius Julius Hyginus 5. Explaining the fable-myth about care 6. Dimensions of care 7. The nature of care 8. Resonances of care 9. Concretizations of care 10. Pathologies of care 11. Exemplary figures of care Conclusion: to care and the future of the dispossessed of the earth
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Books GRACE BIBLE COLLEGE Philosophy and Religion 177.7 BOF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available 020267

Originally published: London : SPCK, ©2007
Translated from the Portuguese

The issue of care serves as a critique of the agonising situation of our civilisation, but it also serves as an inspiring principle for a fresh paradigm of living together. This book envisions a globalised society in the great common home of the earth and of a world in which care has been recognised as a fundamental ethos of the human being.

1. Carelessness: a sign of our times 2. To care: the ethos of the human being 3. The fable-myth about "care" 4. An ingenious slave: Gaius Julius Hyginus 5. Explaining the fable-myth about care 6. Dimensions of care 7. The nature of care 8. Resonances of care 9. Concretizations of care 10. Pathologies of care 11. Exemplary figures of care Conclusion: to care and the future of the dispossessed of the earth

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