This limited circle of concern is hardly unique to the Fed.
This enables a child to "expand their circle of concern" and makes it possible for them to "consider the justice of their communities and society".
But many draw their circle of concern narrowly; they continue to resist the idea that people without adequate insurance are anything like these deserving others.
An "advocacy team" of friends and relatives should be mustered to help protect the hospitalized parent; a wider "circle of concern" should be tapped for moral support.
There's a wonderful section, for example, on the reality that humans' "circle of concern" is rapidly expanding through global connectedness — echoing my explorations of what I call "Knowosphere" as well as a prediction of Darwin in 1871.
In the decades since Earth Day, Americans have become attuned to forms of social justice of which we used to be oblivious — the latest example is gay marriage, and the enlargement of the circle of concern that it stands for.
Indeed, by making Walt a chemistry genius, the show offers an implicit rebuke to the persistent modern conceit that a scientific worldview logically implies liberalism, humanism and a widening circle of concern.
What does it mean, he seems to ask, to be me, right now? "Your circle of concern tightens," he says, explaining why he has trouble mustering sympathy for pets.
Our worries are our "Circle of Concern".
Throughout his life, King expanded his circle of concern to include the civil rights movement, to the Vietnam War, to the plight of poor people of every color.
And yet, poverty, violence, incarceration, immigration reform, racism, economic injustice and political paralysis continue to serve as perpetual obstacles to a fully inclusive society capable of delivering an inter-related social contract that widens the circle of concern.
