ALBERT SCHWEITZER’ ETHICS: APPLIED ASPECT

Authors

  • H. Gaertner Polish Schweitzer Society in Krakow, Poland
  • B. Stelcer Polish Albert Schweitzer Society in Poznah, Poland
  • E. Wissel Albert Schweitzer Freundeskreis, Dresden, Germany

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18372/2412-2157.21.10661

Keywords:

moral self-perfection, reverence for life, medical ethics, care, responsibility

Abstract

The authors discuss the activities and achievements of Albert Schweitzer in their principal fields: music and musicology, philosophy and theology, and medicine and hospital management. They also describe Schweitzer's successive hospitals in Lambarene (Gabon) during the years of 1913-2013.

References

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Published

2016-05-05

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 1 (2015)

Section

Philosophy