The Restoration of Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Restoration of Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision write by Predrag Cicovacki. This book was released on 2012-04-26. The Restoration of Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1913, Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) left his internationally renowned career as a theologian, philosopher, and organ player to open a hospital in the jungles of Africa. There he developed in theory and practice his ethics of reverence for life. When he published his most important philosophical work, The Philosophy of Civilization, few people were serious about treating animals with dignity and giving any consideration to environmental issues. Schweitzer's urge was heard but not fully appreciated. One hundred years later, we are in a better position to do it. Predrag Cicovacki's book is a call to restore Schweitzer's vision. After critically and systematically discussing the most important aspects of the ethics of reverence for life, Cicovacki argues that the restoration of Schweitzer does not mean the restoration of any particular doctrine. It means summoning enough courage to reverse the deadly course of our civilization. And it also means establishing a way of life that stimulates striving toward what is the best and highest in human beings.
The Restoration of Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision
The Restoration of Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Restoration of Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision write by Predrag Cicovacki. This book was released on 2012-04-26. The Restoration of Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Vision available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1913, Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) left his internationally renowned career as a theologian, philosopher, and organ player to open a hospital in the jungles of Africa. There he developed in theory and practice his ethics of reverence for life. When he published his most important philosophical work, The Philosophy of Civilization, few people were serious about treating animals with dignity and giving any consideration to environmental issues. Schweitzer's urge was heard but not fully appreciated. One hundred years later, we are in a better position to do it. Predrag Cicovacki's book is a call to restore Schweitzer's vision. After critically and systematically discussing the most important aspects of the ethics of reverence for life, Cicovacki argues that the restoration of Schweitzer does not mean the restoration of any particular doctrine. It means summoning enough courage to reverse the deadly course of our civilization. And it also means establishing a way of life that stimulates striving toward what is the best and highest in human beings.
Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action
Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action write by James Carleton Paget. This book was released on 2016-12-09. Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 1940s and 1950s, Albert Schweitzer was one of the best-known figures on the world stage. Courted by monarchs, world statesmen, and distinguished figures from the literary, musical, and scientific fields, Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952, cementing his place as one of the great intellectual leaders of his time. Schweitzer is less well known now but nonetheless a man of perennial fascination, and this volume seeks to bring his achievements across a variety of areas—philosophy, theology, and medicine—into sharper focus. To that end, international scholars from diverse disciplines offer a wide-ranging examination of Schweitzer’s life and thought over the course of forty years. Albert Schweitzer in Thought and Action gives readers a fuller, richer, and more nuanced picture of this controversial but monumental figure of twentieth-century life—and, in some measure, of that complex century itself.
The Philosophy of Civilization
The Philosophy of Civilization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Philosophy of Civilization write by Albert Schweitzer. This book was released on 1949. The Philosophy of Civilization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contains the author's The decay and the restoration of civilizatio n and his Civilization and ethics, each originally published separtely.
Decolonising Imperial Heroes
Decolonising Imperial Heroes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Decolonising Imperial Heroes write by Max Jones. This book was released on 2017-10-02. Decolonising Imperial Heroes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The heroes of the British and French empires stood at the vanguard of the vibrant cultures of imperialism that emerged in Europe in the second-half of the nineteenth century. Their stories are well known. Scholars have tended to assume that figures such as Livingstone and Gordon, or Marchand and Brazza, vanished rapidly at the end of empire. Yet imperial heroes did not disappear after 1945, as British and French flags were lowered around the world. On the contrary, their reputations underwent a variety of metamorphoses in both the former metropoles and the former colonies. This book develops a framework to understand the complex legacies of decolonisation, both political and cultural, through the case study of imperial heroes. We demonstrate that the ‘decolonisation’ of imperial heroes was a much more complex and protracted process than the political retreat from empire, and that it is still an ongoing phenomenon, even half a century after the world has ceased to be ‘painted in red’. Whilst Decolonising Imperial Heroes explores the appeal of the explorers, humanitarians and missionaries whose stories could be told without reference to violence against colonized peoples, it also analyses the persistence of imperial heroes as sites of political dispute in the former metropoles. Demonstrating that the work of remembrance was increasingly carried out by diverse, fragmented groups of non-state actors, in a process we call ‘the privatisation of heroes’, the book reveals the surprising rejuvenation of imperial heroes in former colonies, both in nation-building narratives and as heritage sites. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.
