an ethics of human nature Boff, Leonardo creator text Waco, TX Baylor University Press ©2008 monographic eng

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xi, 178 p. 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 Leonardo Boff ; translation and notes, Alexandre Guilherme Originally published: London : SPCK, ©2007 Translated from the Portuguese Caring Conduct of life Caring 177.7 BOF 9781602581425 9781602581654 1602581657 1602581428 210510 20241126110654.0