Boff, Leonardo.

Essential care : an ethics of human nature / Leonardo Boff ; translation and notes, Alexandre Guilherme. - Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2008. - xi, 178 p. ; 22 cm.

First published: London : SPCK, c2007. Translated from the Portuguese.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-175) and index.

Carelessness: a sign of our times -- To care: the ethos of the human being -- The fable-myth about 'care' -- An ingenious slave: Gaius Julius Hyginus -- Explaining the fable-myth about care -- Dimensions of care -- The nature of care -- Resonances of care -- Concretizations of care -- Pathologies of care -- Exemplary figures of care -- Conclusion: to care and the future of the dispossessed of the earth.

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