ANIMAL RIGHTS (2). Albert Schweitzer

ANIMAL RIGHTS (2). Albert Schweitzer

“I am life that wants to live in the midst of life that wants to live.” (Albert Schweitzer)

 

“Anyone who does something deliberately has to justify to themselves and to others how they made their decision. And since humans, unlike other animals, are able to recognize the will to live of other living beings, they must also take it into account appropriately.”

Two components of his ethics

  • The felt and sensed community of will of all life
  • Exclusively human reason, which must draw appropriate consequences from this.

What is done out of compelling necessity is morally legitimate. However, if there is no compulsion to kill, then all life deserves unrestricted sympathy, respect and compassion.

 

 

 

 

 

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