A BOOK REVIEW of Milton Mayeroff, On Caring. New York :  Harper @ Row, 1971.

by Dan Haarer

This small paperback, while not written as a religious book, is in a sense very spiritual.  One could see it as an essay on an aspect of “to love one’s neighbor as oneself.”  Mayeroff states his core thesis as “to care for another person, in the most significant sense, is to help him grow and actualize himself.”  He also elaborates on the process of caring as bringing about comprehensive order and meaning to life.  This book was recently added to our church library.