Synthesis philosophica, Vol. 27 No. 1, 2012.
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The Reverence for Life Worldview as the Basis for a Global Ethics
Roman Globokar
; Universität Ljubljana, Theologische Fakultät, Ljubljana, Slowenien
Sažetak
Regarding the current crisis conditions, we are looking for a global ethics. This paper investigates Albert Schweitzer’s reverence for life worldview as a possible contribution to the development of such ethics. With his project at the beginning of the 20th century, Schweitzer wanted to renew the devastated Western culture. Man must experience himself as “a life in the midst of life”. As biological nature cannot be the source for ethics, it is referred to the will to love which man discovers in himself and which, due to the attitude of reverence, obliges him for sustaining and promoting all life. With the active mysticism of reverence for life Schweitzer intended to develop a universal foundation of all ethics, but the intention was inadequate. In the author’s opinion, although his worldview can hardly be considered “logically necessary” – as he tries to demonstrate – it is still highly relevant as an inspiration and motivation in the contemporary crisis condition.
Ključne riječi
Albert Schweitzer; reverence for life; global ethics; Weltethos; crisis of culture; mysticism; the basic principle of morals; inter-religious dialogue
Hrčak ID:
94701
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.10.2012.
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