Care?

Before delving into care theory, let us first begin with two simple questions about the meaning of care and care-full-ness for you:

Firstly, ‘care’ is a complex concept and one that has received a great deal of attention by philosophers over the centuries and millennia. In ancient mythology, ‘Cura’ was a Roman goddess who created the first human.

How do you say ‘care’ in your own language? and what does it mean or refer to? Are there different words for ‘care’?

Secondly, what does being ‘care-full’ mean to you?

Share your answers via the chat icon at the top of the page (they will then be incorporated into an updated word cloud for a future course cohort).

In the next unit we will return to these questions and also share a few responses from some of our guest contributors on what being care-full means to them.

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