Reverence For Life

Albert Schweitzer was a unique thinker,was also a great humanitarian practitioners.He has been focusing on ethical and cultural issues all his life,published a large number of related works and founded Reverence for life Ethics.Schweitzer was rooted in Africa for half a century to healed the wounded,rescued the dying for free and protected animal,perform Reverence for life Ethics by his ractical action.Einstein once said that Schweitzer was the only person in the western world in twentieth Century who had an international moral influence in comparison with Gandhi.Schweitzer was an outstanding representative of combining of Chinese and Western culture,the inheritance and absorption of the Christian fraternity thought,the humanitarian tradition and the eastern ethics achieved his Reverence for life Ethics,his understanding and reflection on the problem of the times is also the root of the Reverence for life Ethics.In the two World War and the animal welfare movement,Schweitzer thought deeply about the relationship between man and other life,against war,affirmed life and advocated the devout attitude to life was an absolute law in his view.The universal connection of life and the equality of intrinsic value is no doubt,therefore,he extended the object of ethics from man to all life,and emphasize that human beings have to assume unlimited moral responsibility for life,broke the anthropocentric.The rapid development of the industrialization of European capitalism leads to the imbalance of the level of material and spiritual development,the loss of people's thinking is the main reason for the decline of culture.Schweitzer affirmed the importance of rational thinking,called on through the depth of freedom to realize the solidarity of life will,and achieve reverence for life.The experience of other life will not only preserve and promote life,but also can achieve the highest value of life.Reverence for life Ethics as an world outlook of affirming world and life is the essence of cultural progress,but also the key to the construction of cultural countries.The proposition of Reverence for life Ethics has a profound influence on the development of the whole society and ethics.It is a revolution in the history of ecological ethics,it can promote the harmony between human beings and all life and promote the progress of culture,it is also the inevitable requirement of human inner perfection.But it also has some historical limitations,Reverence for life Ethics with mysticism based on faith caused it too idealistic,lack of specific standards and practices.Negativing value sequence requires people to abandon their own wil firstly,secondly we must treat all life equally,people fall into moral relativism in practice and lead to can't choose.The motivational characteristics of Reverence for life Ethics putting too much emphasis on the importance of subjective motivation,overestimated the level of moral consciousness of people,ignore the importance of behavioral effects.It can not effectively regulate the behavior of people,it is difficult to get out of the practice of confusion.