Albert Schweitzer's ethical vision : a sourcebook /
Albert Schweitzer's leading philosophical idea was "reverence for life": good consists in maintaining and perfecting life, evil in destroying and obstructing life. For Schweitzer, all life is sacred, and ethics deals with human attitudes and behavior toward all living beings. Unlike m...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Western and Indian thought
- The historical Jesus
- The kingdom of God
- Religion in modern civilization
- The decay of civilization
- Civilization and ethics
- The optimistic worldview in Kant
- Schopenhauer and Nietzsche's quest for elementary ethics
- Reverence for life
- The ethics of reverence for life
- The problem of ethics in the evolution of human thought
- Bach and aesthetics
- Goethe the philosopher
- Gandhi and the force of nonviolence
- The problem of peace in the world today
- My life is my argument.