The ethics of reverence for life is the ethics of Jesus, - TopicsExpress



          

The ethics of reverence for life is the ethics of Jesus, philosophically expressed, made cosmic in scope. and conceived as intellectually necessary. The great error of earlier ethics is that it concerned itself only with the relations of man to man. The real question is, however, once concerning mans relation to the world and to all life which comes within its reach. A man is ethical only when life, as such, is holy to him, that is, the life of plants and animals as well as the lives of men. Moreover, he is ethical also only when he extends help to all life that is in need of it. Only the universal ethics of the ever-expanding sense of responsibility for all life can be grounded in thought. The ethics of the relation between man to man is not something unto itself. It is only a particular application of universal ethics. Albert Schweitzer
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 20:07:44 +0000

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