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Civilization and Ethics

by Albert Schweitzer

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  1. 1Dedication — Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — The Crisis in Civilization and Its Spiritual Cause
  3. 3Chapter II — The Problem of the Optimistic World-View
  4. 4Chapter III — The Ethical Problem
  5. 5Chapter IV — Religious and Philosophical World-Views
  6. 6Chapter V — Civilization and Ethics in the Græco-Roman Philosophy
  7. 7Chapter VI — Optimistic World-View and Ethics in the Renaissance an…
  8. 8Chapter VII — Laying the Foundation of Ethics in the Seventeenth an…
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Laying the Foundations of Civilization in the Age of…
  10. 10Chapter IX — The Optimistic-Ethical World-View in Kant
  11. 11Chapter X — Nature-Philosophy and World-View in Spinoza and Leibniz
  12. 12Chapter XI — J. G. Fichte’s Optimistic-Ethical World-View
  13. 13Chapter XII — Schiller; Goethe; Schleiermacher
  14. 14Chapter XIII — Hegel’s Supra-Ethical Optimistic World-View
  15. 15Chapter XIV — The Later Utilitarianism. Biological and Sociological…
  16. 16Chapter XV — Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
  17. 17Chapter XVI — The Issue of the Western Struggle for a World-View
  18. 18Chapter XVII — The New Way
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — The Foundations of Optimism Secured From the Will-t…
  20. 20Chapter XIX — The Problem of Ethics, Starting From the History of E…
  21. 21Chapter XX — The Ethic of Devotion and the Ethic of Self-Perfecting
  22. 22Chapter XXI — The Ethic of Reverence for Life
  23. 23Chapter XXII — The Civilizing Power of the Ethic of Reverence for Life

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