# Civilization and ethics

Author: Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965; Campion, C. T. (Charles Thomas), 1861-1938 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Philosophy & Ethics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76061

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Civilization+and+ethics+Schweitzer&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

While still a student I was surprised to find the history of thought always written merely as a history of philosophical systems, never as the history of man’s effort to arrive at a world-view. Later, when reflecting on the current of civilization in which I found myself living, I was struck by the strange and inexorable connexions which exist between civilization and our view of the world as a whole. Next I felt a still stronger compulsion to put to Western thought the question what it has been aiming at, and what result it has reached in the matter of world-view. What is there left of the achievements of our philosophy when it is stripped of its tinsel of learning? What has it to offer...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/17/index.md)
- [PART II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX Notes](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/37/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV Notes](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/34/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI Notes](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/36/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII Notes](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V Notes](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII Notes](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV Notes](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/35/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI Notes](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/31/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI Notes](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X Notes](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/30/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII Notes](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/33/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII Notes](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/32/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III Notes](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX Notes](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/civilization-and-ethics-76061/chapters/29/index.md)