Word: ethicality
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...Schweitzer lives his ethic of Reverence for Life with a Franciscan absolutism. Rather than cut down trees that must be removed, he has often gone to considerable pains to get them transplanted...
...uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethic whispers into my ear," he once wrote. "You are happy, it says; therefore you are called upon to give much. Whatever more than others you have received in health, natural gifts, working capacity, success, a beautiful childhood, harmonious family circumstances, you must not accept as being a matter of course. You must pay a price for them. You must show more than an average devotion to life...
...understanding. Schweitzer's chief point: Jesus, like many Jews of his time, believed that God was momentarily about to end the physical world and inaugurate his Kingdom. In this expectation, reasoned Schweitzer, Christ sent out his disciples to announce the coming Kingdom, and preached an unworldly "interim ethic" designed to prepare man for an imminent end of the world...
...Rationalist Schweitzer the phrase "Reverence for Life" seems "the ethic of Jesus brought to philosophical expression, extended into cosmical form, and conceived of as intellectually necessary...
Avoiding a direct controversy, Niebuhr implied that numerous ambiguous areas in both Christianity and Communism were not mutually exclusive. He consistently took the historical slant on Communism, declaring that essentialy it was a protest against a Christian ethic which had made property the instrument of virtue...