| The Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), Germany renowned philosopher, theologians, missionary doctor, musicians, he get the Nobel peace prize in Oslo 1954. He creatively proposed"the reverence of life"philosophy thoughts, Triggered the revolution of ethics theory, takes the ethics into a new stage of development, and proposed for modern ecological ethics laid a theoretical foundation. This paper uses Schweitzer's book"the reverence of life","civilization philosophy"as the main research materials, hope to dig out the rich ideological resources. On one hand grasp Schweitzer"reverence of life"ethics of the theoretical connotation, logical structure and the direction of the value, and summarizes its thought historical significance and theoretical contributions; On the other hand through the"reverence of life"thought of mining for the contemporary human society developing valuable theoretical enlightenment.The European capitalism material construction level rapid fast in nineteenth century and"civilization crisis"to appear and two world war form the "reverence of life" thought produce background of times. The " reverence of life" thought is on European natural philosophy and humanitarian thought of inherit, by Christian "love" theory and Paul mysticism. Meanwhile, Schweitzer traditional ethical culture to the east of reference and beyond, for Schopenhauer and Nietzsche pessimism philosophy of discarded and of the thoughts on modern utilitarianism critical constitute the"reverence of life"theory thoughts origin.The system to interpret the Schweitzer's"reverence of life"the ethical thoughts."reverence of life"as its ethical thoughts of the core concepts, among them,"life"is a word contains the people, all the animals and plants, and all life phenomenon. While"reverence"clearly expressed a pious life attitude. Reverence of life is a kind of psychological characteristics, but also behavior, this is the most basic request Schweitzer on his ethics, is also the most profound morals request. reverence of life is to discard the self life will split, realize the life will closely together, sharing the life will closely in practice embodies in human life and all relief activities, and the human inner freedom of thought is"reverence of life"thinking of the driving force. Ethical scope extended to all life, life value of equality and reverence of life the absoluteness form the "reverence of life" the thought value direction. Schweitzer"reverence of life"the thought to urge people to rethink human and human, human and other animals and plants and the relationship between man and nature.Base on the Schweitzer"reverence of life"ethics thought made comprehensive evaluation ,we can draw"reverence of life"thought itself, there also exist certain limitations, performance for its theoretical incompleteness, religious mystery and practice confused . But we cannot but admit that the"reverence of life"thoughts will all life gives such a high position, the ethics history none at all. Therefore,"reverence of life"thinking of the theory of history, it is of great significance to the traditional ethics"anthropocentric doctrine"to"life centralism"transformation, and puts forward the improvement of man himself requirements and realize culture national way."reverence of life"on human thinking is shown in its theoretical contributions for the modern ecological ethics, proposed laid a theoretical foundation for human development put forward the reasonable civilization world outlook."reverence of life"thinking of the contemporary human social development is also has profound theoretical enlightenment. It teaches us to oppose a war, will humanitarian promotion ; Cherish life, to be the ethical person; Establish ecological civilization, The People's development should be in harmony with nature; And Maintain spirit of development and material synchronization.Based on the data archive and predecessors summarized , trying to fully grasp Schweitzer "reverence of life" thinking of the meaning and theoretical significance, accurate scientifically evaluate the " reverence of life" thinking of the theoretical contributions, and hope to Schweitzer through its "reverence of life" ethics system for contemporary interpretation of human development provides beneficial enlightenment.
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