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Reverence for Life
Concept in Albert Schweitzer's ethical philosophy
Reverence for Life
The phrase Reverence for Life (German: Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben) came to Albert Schweitzer on a boat trip on the Ogooué River in French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon), while searching for a universal concept of ethics for modern times. In the German book with the same title its editor, Hans Walter Bähr, used the explanatory expression 'solidarity with life'. In Civilization and Ethics, Schweitzer wrote: Ethics is nothing other than Reverence for Life. Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting and enhancing life, and to destroy, to harm or to hinder life is evil. James Brabazon, author of Albert Schweitzer: A Biography, defined Reverence for Life as follows: Reverence for Life says that the only thing we are really sure of is that we live and want to go on living. This is something that we share with everything else that lives, from elephants to blades of grass—and, of course, every human being. So we are brothers...
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