Essential Care : An Ethics of Human Nature

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. In this volume, 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. Book jacket.

Leonardo Boff (Ph.D. and Th.D. University of Munich) is Emeritus Professor of Ethics, Religion, Philosophy and Ecology at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil