Ethics and disasters in the work of Albert Schweitzer

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6190857
AutoresKatarína Komenská (0000-0002-8771-1221, University of Prešov, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen26
Número1
Páginas34-42
Fecha de publicación2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHuman Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1210-3055 • E-ISSN: 1337-401X
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/humaff-2016-0005
OpenAlexW2314780650
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas8

Traditional ethical frameworks are challenged in disaster settings as they are often too rigorous to be applied to such situations. Nonetheless, the role of moral theories in discussions on disasters should not be dismissed. Indeed, some of the ideas and concepts in traditional ethical frameworks and moral theories may be a source of inspiration in such debates. Therefore, the present paper presents the two main concepts in Albert Schweitzer’s philosophical thinking: the concept of cultural crisis and his understanding of ethics. These concepts form the basis of Schweitzer’s formulation of an ethics of the reverence for life as an answer to the cultural crisis and the need for a new ethics for a modern, humane civilisation. His thinking is reflected through the scope of disaster ethics and its potential to enrich discussions on disaster ethics is critically analysed

Applied ethics · Civilization · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Information ethics · Meta-ethics · Normative ethics · Political science · Reverence · Social science · Sociology · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Philosophy · Risk Perception and Management · War, Ethics, and Justification