Project Gutenberg 2025-05-10 Public domain in the USA. 222 Schweitzer, Albert 1875 1965 Campion, C. T. (Charles Thomas) 1861 1938 Campion, Charles Thomas Campion, Charles T. 40013159 Kultur und Ethik. English Civilization and ethics : $b The philosophy of civilization, part 2 Second edition $aLondon :$bA. & C. Black, Ltd., $c1929. Dale memorial lectures, 1922 [II] Actonian Press "Civilization and Ethics: The Philosophy of Civilization, Part II" by Schweitzer is a philosophical treatise written in the early 20th century. The work addresses the relationship between world-view (Weltanschauung), ethics, and the course of civilization, with an emphasis on diagnosing and remedying the spiritual crisis of Western society. Its central concern is the contrast between material advancement and spiritual decline in Western civilization, positing that true progress depends on a renewed ethical and optimistic world-view. The book appears directed at readers interested in philosophy, ethics, cultural criticism, and the historical development of ideas. The opening of this work lays out Schweitzer's conviction that Western civilization is in crisis, not because of external events like war, but due to an internal imbalance—an overemphasis on material progress at the expense of spiritual and ethical development. Schweitzer critiques the history of Western philosophy for failing to establish a stable, serviceable world-view that could underpin a deep and lasting civilization, claiming that our present "uncivilization" stems from this lapse. He argues that previous efforts to ground civilization in optimistic and ethical interpretations of the world have failed because they did not account honestly for the rift between knowledge and will. He introduces the idea that only by resigning oneself to the limitations of knowledge and rooting ethical action in the "will-to-live"—culminating in his principle of "reverence for life"—can civilization recover. The early chapters proceed to contrast Western and Indian philosophical traditions, analyze the intertwined nature of optimism, pessimism, and ethics, and begin a historical survey of the ethical problem, all toward the goal of finding a new foundation for ethical civilization. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/civilizationethi0000schw 20250501061725schweitzer 1929 GB Reading ease score: 56.2 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. en Ethics Civilization -- History CB Text Category: Philosophy & Ethics 717232 2025-07-30T06:32:57.158893 text/html 681859 2025-05-10T16:19:58 text/html 349104 2025-07-30T06:33:05.421880 application/epub+zip 359880 2025-07-30T06:32:58.416922 application/epub+zip 333724 2025-07-30T06:32:57.718899 application/epub+zip 589288 2025-07-30T06:33:11.373896 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 508754 2025-07-30T06:33:04.837909 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 644042 2025-07-30T06:32:55.975914 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 624240 2025-05-10T16:19:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17284 2025-07-30T06:33:11.567846 application/rdf+xml 10236 2025-07-30T06:32:57.885896 image/jpeg 1837 2025-07-30T06:32:57.797895 image/jpeg 632871 2025-07-30T06:32:57.216909 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog de.wikipedia en.wikipedia