Book cover for Virtues: For Another Possible World by Leonardo Boff

Virtues

For Another Possible World

2011 Released
282 Pages
6-7 Hours
Audiobook Unavailable
Cascade BooksISBN 9781621890775
Translated by Alex Guilherme

Virtues are values underlying human practices. We are at the dawn of a new era, an era of global ethics requiring some core virtues. These core virtues are hospitality, co-living, respect, tolerance, and communality. Book 1 treats the virtue of hospitality that is a right and a duty of all, and which is still to be discovered and practiced unconditionally. Book 2 deals with the virtues of co-living, respect, and tolerance, which are important virtues if the peoples of the earth are to live together in peace in our common home, the planet Earth. Finally, Book 3 deals with the virtue of communality; this is a very important virtue because a large part of humanity experiences hunger and thirst, which is something scandalous in this day and age, and which demonstrates a lack of humanity, because we possess the technical means and political framework to resolve this situation. If these core virtues become a reality, they will transform human practices into something beneficial both to human beings and to the planet Earth, our common home.

Alex Guilherme

Translated by

Alexandre Guilherme, the translator, does research and teaches at the University of Durham, UK.

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