Ebook {Epub PDF} Out of My Life and Thought by Albert Schweitzer

For Schweitzer, reverence for life was not a theory or a philosophy but a discovery—a recognition that the capacity to experience and act on a reverence for all life is a fundamental part of human nature, a characteristic that sets human beings apart from the rest of the natural world. Out of My Life and Thought is worth reading for several reasons. First, the narrative itself is lively. Mythologizing aside, Schweitzer was a skillful writer who knew how to capture his reader with fascinating and provocative detail. Second, if you set aside the cynicism de jour for . " Out of My Life and Thought shatters the old myth and allows us to glimpse the real Albert Schweitzer, a man whose moral example is as relevant and compelling in the s as it /5(3).

Albert Schweitzer () won the Nobel Prize for Peace in Although he was highly gifted in science, theology, and music and as an author, Schweitzer dedicated the last six decades of his life to medicine and to a hospital he founded with his wife, Helene Breslau, in French Equatorial Africa, the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon. In Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography, Albert Schweitzer creates a tapestry of ideas. In the background are glimpses of events in his early adult life, mainly from the ages of twenty. See The Albert Schweitzer Page for reviews of books about Dr. Schweitzer and related information. Out of My Life and Thought Written By: Albert Schweitzer Translated By: Antje Bultmann Lemke Original Edition: Henry Holt and Company, Reviewed Edition: Henry Holt and Company, Paperback, Pages ISBN X Quotes Table of Contents.

Out of my life and thought: an autobiography , Johns Hopkins University Press in association with The Albert Schweitzer Institute for the Humanities in English - Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed. Out of My Life and Thought by Albert Schweitzer $ – $ This Reading features the life and writings of physician and theologian, Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press. First Edition ; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine, Leather Bound. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin.