Mike W. Martin

Albert Schweitzer's Reverence for Life

Ethical Idealism and Self-Realization

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, Nobel Peace Laureate, theologian, and musician, developed a character-oriented ethics focused on self-realization, nature-centered spirituality, and moral idealism which anticipated the current renaissance of virtue ethics. Schweitzer's idea of 'reverence for life' underscores the contribution of moral ideals to self-realization, connects ethics to spirituality without religious dogma, and outlines a pioneering environmental ethics that bridges the gap between valuing life in its unity and valuing individual organisms. In this book Mike W. Martin interprets Schweitzer's 'reverence for life' as an umbrella virtue, drawing together all the more specific virtues, in particular: authenticity, love, compassion, gratitude, justice and peace loving, each of which Martin discusses in an individual chapter. Martin's treatment of his subject is sympathetic yet critical and for the first time clearly places Schweitzer's environmental ethics within the wider framework of his ethical theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 361g
• ISBN-13: 9780754661061
• ISBN-10: 0754661067
• Artikelnr.: 47827583

Autorenporträt

Mike W. Martin is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Chapman University, California, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Introduction
Ethics from within
Ideals as guides
Environmental ethics
Authenticity: reverence for self
Compassion: community of suffering
Gratitude: good fortune obligates
Justice as human rights
Peace loving and non-violence
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.