Analyzing Albert Schweitzer's 'Reverence For Life'

Reverence for life “Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace”- Albert Schweitzer. Yes, I do agree with Schweitzer’s work because if you don’t show compassion and love to everyone you meet how will you ever find peace and love in life. He shows so much compassion for human life, my last reason why I agree with his philosophy is because life is so beautiful how could anyone not show compassion for it. Gorgias was one person that had a opposite theory on life. He thought that nothing should be shown compassion, I disagree with him completely because I believe everyone should show compassion for life. One of the reasons why I agree with Schweitzer is because if we don’t show compassion to everything how could we die in peace knowing that we had a hatred for everything. The reason I say this is because if you don’t have compassion for everything in the world how …show more content…
One philosopher named Gorgias had the same idea he believed that not all living things deserved compassion this differs from Schweitzer in the sense that only some organisms deserve compassion, Schweitzer believed all things deserved compassion in some sort of manner. I disagree with Gorgias because I still believe that all organisms can do right in their lifetime even if they have killed another living being all organisms deserve compassion from other organisms even if they have done the unthinkable. Another reason I don’t agree is because of all the other things an organism can do what if the shark could actually save or benefit another organism I would still give it compassion because of how good it did to help other things than just to be a