Knowing through Nursing: Edgar and the Exercise of Care in King Lear

In Shakespeare's late plays, the arts of care push towards sublime horizons of value out of lived ecologies of virtue nourished by global wisdom traditions. To know by nursing is to intuit in and through the intimate tactility of tending to the birth, growth, healing, or dying of another person a sense of purpose and meaning, of telos or goal, yearnings that both sustain and are supported by philosophies, religions, or world views that gain value by being shared with others: 'What is your study?'

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In Shakespeare's late plays, the arts of care aim to reach sublime values through the lived ecologies of virtue nurtured by global wisdom traditions. The knowledge gained through nursing allows individuals to find purpose and meaning through the intimate act of tending to others, fostering a sense of goal and yearning.