Albert Schweitzer is one of my great heroes, not only because he was extremely versatile - namely, theologian, philosopher, Bach scholar, virtuoso organist, organ specialist, Tropical doctor, architect and author - but especially by his to have lived through and through real motto "respect for life" , not only in human life, but also against the creature. All life was sacred to Albert Schweitzer.
In Lambaréné, Africa, he was not very merciful to his human patients, but also to his animal patients and companions that are there, on whatever way had been found, whether monkey, dog, deer, pelicans, etc. Yes, of lying on his back, he helped beetles back into life in which he turned them carefully. Even he did not suffer from cut flowers, as they proved in his opinion, too little respect for the living as such.
held Prior to working in Africa, he at St. Nicholas Church at Strasbourg Sunday sermons, and sought by means of this influence on his fellow men to win them a degree of ethics, respect and compassionate treatment and care before any life . mediate only brotherhood between the people he considered inadequate. Not
he criticized last great philosophers, including Plato and Kant, our fellow creatures because they looked just as busy things and not as independent, sentient beings. Descartes not only from any sense of them even spoke, and it was the raison d'etre of the animals is that they for man sake available here and for him are what science is indeed still see today - and the animals accordingly as "animals" used and consumed like any simple farmer that does well and handles, as were the animals created only for human tick and possess no right to their own lives. For Schweitzer is the Ehtik to infinity erweiterete responsibility for everything that lives.
Albert Schweitzer's famous statement:
was "I am life that wants to live in the midst of life that wants to live" ,
Antispeziesistische the motto of the movement .
I'm concerned, as much as he could, his thinking and feeling actually put into real life. Oh, if I only succeed in realizing even half of it, of what is in me and for a long time, looking his way out.
But there are so many ways, wrong ways, detours, forks, wrong paths and false companion and a culture that constantly hammers us: Buy! buy! was gutausehend! was slightly (thoughtfully)! is individualistic! believe in yourself! only if you can not afford much, then you are somebody! consume more, then you will happy! Buy you a bigger House, a faster car, you'll be happy!
And while the people sit in their square cages and dare not come out, not even to their neighbors do not dare longer to fall out of the crowd and actually be an individual, why should they be exempt only from the whole waste who has manipulated him who they are today and where they are today. Consumption &
be attractive and the setting blank & separation with alcohol, drugs or (television) to drive consumption. No thanks, I can not and must not have been at the end of everything.
Oh, if the day had only 40 hours, it would much easier to create. Where is all the time? Oh, if only I could succeed even to return to my inside out - finally.
But there are so many ways, wrong ways, detours, forks, wrong paths and false companion and a culture that constantly hammers us: Buy! buy! was gutausehend! was slightly (thoughtfully)! is individualistic! believe in yourself! only if you can not afford much, then you are somebody! consume more, then you will happy! Buy you a bigger House, a faster car, you'll be happy!
And while the people sit in their square cages and dare not come out, not even to their neighbors do not dare longer to fall out of the crowd and actually be an individual, why should they be exempt only from the whole waste who has manipulated him who they are today and where they are today. Consumption &
be attractive and the setting blank & separation with alcohol, drugs or (television) to drive consumption. No thanks, I can not and must not have been at the end of everything.
Oh, if the day had only 40 hours, it would much easier to create. Where is all the time? Oh, if only I could succeed even to return to my inside out - finally.