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The overarching principle that guided him was reverence for life, a philosophy that took him to the jungles of africa, where he healed many and touched the lives of millions worldwide. Gathered together for the first time in one place, nobel peace prizewinner albert schweitzer s words on ecology, human and animal rights, philosophy, war and peace, music and the arts, and forming a global community. Born in alsace in 1875, his passionate intellectual curiosity, combined with huge physical energy, enabled him to win degrees in philosophy, theology and music at strasbourg university, while earning a living as a lutheran curate. Albert schweitzer, roger gamble foreword by online at alibris. He has his own solution of the problems, and it is not to. Robles served as founder and president of the albert schweitzer institute for the humanities in the usa and is now cofounder of and special advisor to health promotion south africa trust. From this meagre and arbitrarily selected beginning it is inevitable that it. Therefore it need a free signup process to obtain the book. For schweitzer, all life is sacred, and ethics deals with human attitudes and behavior toward all living beings.
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