This article proposes homines curans, translated as caring people, as an epistemological development of cura personalis, which is an established practice within social work that affirms caring for the person as integral to the profession. Accordingly, care, as an ontological a priori that correlates with the lifeworld is recognised as core to social work, which, as a caring vocation, is additionally committed to social protection. Resultantly, homines curans is acknowledged as delineating the limits of homo economicus within the social work imaginary whereby the ethics of care, as a critical social theory, is considered to be subversive to the symbolic and systemic power of market fundamentalism. Consequently, the ethics of care, as a post-liberal discourse, is observed to resocialise the political economy and engender social solidarity within a radical new politics of social work.