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Table of contents
Chapter 1 Our Expressions of Care
Chapter 2 The Primordial Nature of Care
Chapter 3 Challenges of Care in Everyday Living
Chapter 4 The Care Within Us
Chapter 5 Care Is Elusive
Chapter 6 Seeking the Care Within Us
Chapter 7 Challenges of Contemplating Care
Chapter 8 A Responsibility for Care
References
Index
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A quote from the Ancient Greek philosopher Plotinus about the primordial nature of care.
“For it has already been said that souls must have their own movements, and that they are not only souls but also already living beings, and that there is nothing surprising if, being what they are, they have a life corresponding with their nature; for they have not come into the universe because it existed but before the universe they had it in them to belong to the universe, and to care.”
A quote from the Contemporary philosopher Martha Nussbaum about our compassion becoming unjust.
“A compassionate society might still be an unjust society. It might weep about the fact that taxes cause people to miss out on luxury goods such as peacock’s tongues. And it might fail to weep about the Joads, forced into destitution by the absence of a social safety net. It might blame the poor for their plight and fail to blame those who exploit them. And, as in Steinbeck’s society, its institutions might show concern only for a narrow elite, while ignoring the plight of the laboring classes.”
A quote from the modern Jewish rabbi and theologian Samson Hirsch about suppressing compassion.
“Do not suppress this compassion, this sympathy, especially with the sufferings of your fellow-man. It is the warning voice of duty, which points out to you your brother in every sufferer, and your own sufferings in his, and awakens the love which tells you that you belong to him and his sufferings with all the powers that you have. Do not suppress it! If you thrust it back too often, it will no more well up of itself, and you will have cut yourself off from the company of all your fellow-creatures.”
A quote from the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle about the shifting scales of justice in society.
“But the political association too, it is believed, was originally formed, and continues to be maintained, for the advantage of its members: the aim of lawgivers is the good of the community, and justice is sometimes defined as that which is to the common advantage.”
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