Boff, Leonardo  <br/><br/>
Essential care :   an ethics of human nature / 
Leonardo Boff ; translation and notes, Alexandre Guilherme 
 - Waco, TX :   Baylor University Press,   ©2008 
 - xi, 178 p. 
<br/><br/>Originally published: London : SPCK, ©2007<br/>Translated from the Portuguese 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781602581425  9781602581654  1602581657  1602581428 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Caring. <br/>Conduct of life. <br/>Caring
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>177.7  / BOF