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 Civilization and Ethics, Schweitzer wrote: Ethics is nothing other than 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 Civilization and Ethics, Schweitzer wrote: Ethics is nothing other than Reverence for Life.
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