Virtues are values underlying human practices. we're on the sunrise of a brand new period, an period of worldwide ethics requiring a few middle virtues. those middle virtues are hospitality, co-living, appreciate, tolerance, and communality. ebook 1 treats the advantage of hospitality that could be a correct and an obligation of all, and that's nonetheless to be came upon and practiced unconditionally. ebook 2 bargains with the virtues of co-living, appreciate, and tolerance, that are very important virtues if the peoples of the earth are to reside jointly in peace in our universal domestic, the planet Earth. ultimately, ebook three bargains with the advantage of communality; this can be a vitally important advantage simply because a wide a part of humanity reviews starvation and thirst, that is whatever scandalous at the moment, and which demonstrates a scarcity of humanity, simply because we own the technical capability and political framework to unravel this case. If those middle virtues turn into a fact, they're going to rework human practices into whatever precious either to people and to the planet Earth, our universal home.

"Leonardo Boff touches on a subject matter that is significant to human flourishing and is a well timed reminder of the necessity for the implementation of the sensible politics of human connectedness. The exploration of the required tactics to accomplish hospitality, co-living, admire, tolerance, and communality is a key problem of our age, and this booklet makes a good contribution to that goal."
--Christopher Rowland
Dean eire Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture
University of Oxford

"Leonardo Boff spins the spirituality of St. Francis into an ecological, cosmic, political--albeit human--vision of what our international may turn into if we're prepared to perform hospitality, co-living, tolerance, appreciate, and feasting jointly. As a pastor whose church is earth-friendly and changing into eco-friendly with sun panels, i discovered in Boff's Virtues a reputable, sustainable spirituality for all peoples of religion to satisfy the demanding situations of th twenty-first century. only a few theologians weave environmental and social justice right into a unified holistic imaginative and prescient as Boff has finished here."
--Robert Shore-Goss
Senior Pastor/Theologian
MCC within the Valley

Leonardo Boff was once born in Brazil in 1938 and acquired a doctorate from the college of Munich in Germany in 1970. For the subsequent two decades, he labored as Professor of Theology on the Franciscan college for Philosophy and Theology in Petropolis, Brazil. throughout the Nineteen Seventies, he and Gustavo Gutiérrez helped to outline liberation theology. in view that 1993 he has been a professor on the kingdom college of Rio de Janeiro, the place he's now Emeritus Professor of Ethics, Philosophy of faith, and Ecology. he's additionally a member of the overseas Earth constitution fee. Boff is the writer of greater than seventy books, together with Saint Joseph: the daddy of Jesus in a Fatherless Society. In 2001 he was once offered the fitting Livelihood Award (which is taken into account to be the "alternative" Nobel Prize) via the Swedish Parliament.

Alex Guilherme teaches within the division of Philosophy at Durham University.