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Article: Ecology of Care: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Self and Moral Obligation.
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- December 8, 1993
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Ecology of Care: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Serf and Moral Obligation. By Robert C. Fuller. Westminster/ John Knox, 107 pp., $12.99 paperback.
WHO CARES?" asks Robert C. Fuller, professor of religious studies at Bradley University in Peoria, in the introduction to this work. He then seeks to show that "the fullest implications of each individual's relationship to the wider web of life on this planet can be appreciated only from an interdisciplinary perspective" and that "care... is a partial due to what gives integrity to human life." He offers a thoughtful, logical argument for the ethical nature of caring as essential to human existence and the ...