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The overarching principle that guided him was reverence for life. From schweitzer on living a good life, but be warned that the pdf scan is 16mb. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read a treasury of albert schweitzer. Musician, theologian and physician, albert schweitzer was above all, a true humanitarian. Reverence for life is beyond selfsacrifice, selffulfillment and selfimprovement, is a creative force. Internet archive contributor internet archive language english. Albert schweitzer, the humanitarian, theologian, missionary, organist, and medical doctor. A lutheran, schweitzer challenged both the secular view of jesus as depicted by the historicalcritical method current at this time, as well as the traditional christian view. In world war i, schweitzer was interned by the french because he was german. The quest of the historical jesus by albert schweitzer. Reverence for life the inspiring words of a great humanitarian hallmark editions, by albert schweitzer. The overarching principle that guided him was reverence for life, a philosophy that took him to the jungles of africa, where he healed many and touched the lives of millions worldwide. The soft data suggests that you need to visit the link for downloading and install and after that save albert schweitzer. Schweitzer defended the idea of the free and moral individual and opposed domination of the concretely personal by the general.
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Albert schweitzers life and legacy reverence for life. But what schweitzer offers here are not rules but rather examples of the type of action expected from one who upholds reverence for life. Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of historical jesus current at his time and the traditional christian view, depicting a jesus who. Most of the quotations concern either schweitzers ethical teachings about reverence for life or schweitzers views on peace in our world. Albert schweitzers reverence for life ethic in relation to arthur schopenhauer and friedrich nietzsche. Albert schweitzer 18751965 was an alsatian theologian, musici.
Albert schweitzer biography albert schweitzer 14 january 1875 4 september 1965 was an alsatian theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. If ever there was a time for reflection upon albert schweitzer and reverence for life, it is now. He was born in kaisersberg in alsacelorraine, a germanophone region which the german empire returned to france after world war i. Albert schweitzer s books mentioned in this article are the best sources of information on his life, work, and ideas. Reverence for life the inspiring words of a great humanitarian hallmark editions, by albert schweitzer you. Oeuvre spirituelle, which was responsible for the dissemination of albert schweitzers ethical thought and. We search to find meaning at such times of pain and death. Albert schweitzer 18751965 was born in kaysersberg, germany now part of france on january 14, and became a theologian, physician, musician, and philosopher whose ethical theory argued the centrality of reverence for life. By james brabazon albert schweitzers achievements were manifold. Schweitzer quotations, each about a paragraph in length.
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