{"id":529575,"date":"2025-10-31T14:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T13:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=529575"},"modified":"2025-10-31T16:14:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T15:14:41","slug":"albert-schweitzer-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/history\/albert-schweitzer-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert Schweitzer, precursor of respect for animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><strong>The Alsatian physician and pastor extended ethics far beyond human relations. Inspired by a revelation in the heart of Africa, he forged a universal ethic embracing people, animals and nature, prefiguring modern ecological ethics.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>L\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/sichtweisenschweiz.ch\/politik\/albert-schweitzer-und-die-ehrfurcht-vor-den-tieren\/\">original article<\/a> is published in German in SICHTWEISENSCHWEIZ.CH<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Albert Schweitzer - Respect for life. Few thinkers have so closely linked their lives and their ideas, and Schweitzer even describes the moment when this expression \u00abrespect for life\u00bb came to mind. It was in 1913, when he was traveling with his wife H\u00e9l\u00e8ne from Lambar\u00e9n\u00e9. On the third evening, they were driving along the River Ogoou\u00e9 and \u00abon a sandbank to the left, four hippos were walking in the same direction as us. It was then, in my great fatigue and discouragement, that the expression \u201crespect for life\u201d suddenly came to mind, which, as far as I knew, I had never heard or read before.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-aux-sources-d-une-ethique-universelle\">At the source of a universal ethic<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>An idea, but one that didn't come from nowhere. After all, Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) had long been concerned that Western ethics were only interested in relationships between human beings, leaving the rest of creation to one side. This experience on the Ogoou\u00e9 was nevertheless decisive for Schweitzer's further thinking, as it gave him the key to developing an ethic that brings us into contact \u00abnot only with human beings, but also with all the creatures in our environment\u00bb and commits us to action. Indeed, since his childhood, the future Nobel Peace Prize winner had been interested in the fate of animals. He recounted how, every evening, after praying with his mother, he would \u00absecretly add an extra prayer that he had composed himself for all living beings\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, he still had a long way to go to formulate an ethic that does not stop at our fellow human beings, but ultimately places us in a new relationship with all that exists. This liberation of ethics from a narrow anthropocentric corset makes him a pioneer of animal and environmental ethics, and can be considered one of his lasting achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-le-respect-de-toute-vie\">Respect for all life<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When Schweitzer speaks of \u00ablife\u00bb, he's not just referring to the life of human beings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abThe error of all ethics up to now has been to fail to recognize life as such as the mysterious value it is dealing with. [...] Attempting to establish universal differences in value between living beings amounts to judging them according to how close or far they are from us humans, according to our perception, which is an entirely subjective criterion. Who among us knows what the significance of another living being is in itself and in the world as a whole?\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The respect Schweitzer speaks of is therefore also respect for animals, respect for bees, earthworms and sparrows. For the respect Schweitzer speaks of is not a respect that a being imposes on me because it has impressive abilities, because it is so similar to man, or because it is as \u00abcute\u00bb as my little dog. Not coincidentally, this is reminiscent of Jesus\u00ab ethic of love, which does not limit love to those who are lovable and close to us, but invites us to look at the world through the eyes of love and thus discover, on a case-by-case basis, who is \u00bbour neighbor\u00ab here and now. So it's no coincidence that Schweitzer saw his ethic of respect for life as \u00bbthe ethic of love extended to the universal\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-entre-conflits-et-responsabilite\">Between conflict and responsibility<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Schweitzer demanded nothing less than to enter into a new relationship with&nbsp;<em>any&nbsp;<\/em>life, even with the universe. But he was well aware of the contradictions and conflicts that such an attitude entails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00abMy existence conflicts with that of others in a thousand ways. The need to destroy and harm life is imposed on me.\u00bb This applies not only to his work as a doctor, in which he becomes a \u00abserial killer of bacteria\u00bb, but to the whole of human existence. Each of us can say, \u00abI am a life that wants to live, in the midst of other lives that want to live.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So there are conflicts everywhere, and Schweitzer didn't see it as the task of ethics to resolve these conflicts for people and provide them with ready-made recipes for what they can and should do. Those who look to Schweitzer's ethics for answers to a concrete ethical problem will not find them. An ethic designed to appease his own conscience was abhorrent to him, because not only did it fail to do justice to the complexity of our reality, it also made us insensitive to the ever-renewed call to responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00abWe must never become blas\u00e9,\u00bb he said. \u00abIt's when we live conflicts ever more deeply that we are in the truth.\u00bb Here again, Schweitzer comes close to the message of Jesus, who, in his harshness, also refuses to soften ethical demands and offer compromises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, 150 years after his birth and 60 years after his death, we remember Schweitzer as an ethical provocateur. However innocuous the expression \u00abrespect for life\u00bb may seem, it conceals a revolutionary potential. Even today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Christoph Ammann<\/strong> is pastor of the Reformed parish of Zurich Witikon. 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