Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Summary

Albert Schweitzer was a German theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician.

It was his firm conviction that Reverence for Life is the highest principle (see Vital Unconscious and Biocentric Principle).

Ideas

  • Reverence for Life - Schweitzer's view was that Western civilization was in decay because of gradually abandoning its ethical foundations - those of affirmation of life.
  • Life and love in his view are based on and follow out of the same principle: eternal respect for every living thing in the cosmos and a spiritual relationship (a form of surrender) towards the entire universe.
  • Reverence for Life comprises the whole ethic of love in its deepest and highest sense. It is the source of constant renewal for the individual and for mankind.

Links

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer

Biography: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1952/schweitzer-bio.html

Quotes: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/albert_schweitzer.html
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer

Reverence for Life: http://www.albertschweitzer.info

Readings on Reverence for Life: http://www1.chapman.edu/schweitzer/reverence_readings.html

The Albert Schweitzer Page: http://home.pcisys.net/~jnf

Albert Schweitzer, The Psychiatric Study of Jesus: Exposition and Criticism, 1911:
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=73962118

Albert Schweitzer, The Ethics of Reverence for Life, Christendom, Vol 1, pp 225-239, 1936:
http://www1.chapman.edu/schweitzer/sch.reading4.html

Ann Cottrell Free, Animals, Nature and Albert Schweitzer, 1982: http://www.awionline.org/schweitzer/as-idx.htm