Introduction
PART I - A Foundation of the Ethics of Reverence for Life: A
Philosophy of Religion and Philosophy of Civilization
1: Western and Indian Thought
2: The Historical Jesus
3: The Kingdom of God
4: Religion in Modern Civilization
5: The Decay of Civilization
PART II - The Ethics of Reverence for Life
6: Civilization and Ethics
7: The Optimistic World-View in Kant
8: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche's Quest for Elementary Ethics
11: The Problem of Ethics in the Evoution of Human Thought
PART III - "My Life is My Argument." The Application of the Ethics
of Reverence for Life
12: Bach and the Aesthetics
13: Goethe the Philosopher
14: Gandhi and the Force of Nonviolence
15: The Problem of Peace in the World of Today
16: My Life is My Argument
Chronology
Bibliography
Predrag Cicovacki is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Peace Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. He is author of Dostoevsky and the Affirmation of Life and Between Truth and Illusion: Kant at the Crossroads of Modernity.
"In his lifetime Albert Schweitzer was admired throughout the world
as a paragon of moral excellence. President John F. Kennedy called
him 'one of the transcendent moral influences of our century.'
Rachel Carson dedicated Silent Spring to Dr. Schweitzer, launching
the modern environmental movement -- she called Schweitzer 'the one
truly great individual our modern times have produced.' By bringing
together in one volume so many of Schweitzer's most
important writings on ethics, introduced by his own superb summary
and assessment of Schweitzer's philosophy of reverence for life,
Predrag Cicovacki has made a major contribution to the exciting
global
re-awakening of interest in Schweitzer that is now underway."
--Lachlan Forrow, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard
Medical School and President of The Albert Schweitzer
Fellowship
"Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision is a valuable and wide-ranging
collection of readings from Albert Schweitzer, the philosopher,
theologian, musician, and medical doctor who argued for the ethic
of reverence for life and tried to make his life his argument. This
sourcebook is highly recommended for all those who wish to address
ethical issues in the world today and who seek, like Schweitzer, to
advance the cause of humanity." --Marvin Meyer, Director
of the Chapman University Albert Schweitzer Institute
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