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A 4 page research paper that examines, briefly, the background of Dr. A. Schweitzer and then discusses his political activism against the Cold War, the arms buildup and nuclear testing. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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over the advent of nuclear weapons and arms race of the 1950s and 60s. Ahead of his time, Schweitzer saw that the Cold War stance of that era was a
prescription for disaster that could ultimately destroy the world and civilization as we know it. Therefore, he called for peace, basing his position on both practical and attitudinal changes on
the part of policymakers and the world population in general. Schweitzer was the son of a Lutheran minister in Alsace. He was an acknowledged expert on both Bach and Goethe
and was also recognized as an academic philosopher (Cavendish, 2003). Early in life, he decided to be a missionary doctor. In his thirties, he gave up his chair in religious
philosophy at Strasbourg University and journeyed to the Gabon province of French equatorial Africa. There with his wife, Helen, who was a nurse, the Schweitzers built a hospital in a
region of Africa that abounded with malaria, dysentery, sleeping sickness, elephantiasis and leprosy (Cavendish, 2003). This work was interrupted by WWI, but in 1924, Schweitzer returned and built a new
hospital. Animals were also treated at Schweitzers hospital, and the good doctor held a deep reverence toward all life. Cavendish (2003) reports that it was while watching a herd of
hippos in the river that Schweitzer came up with the phrase "reverence for life," which he later asserted was his only message for the world (p. 57). It was this
reverence for life that compelled Schweitzer to take an active stance against the insanity of the arms buildup and nuclear testing (Wittner, 1995). Particularly, Schweitzer was alarmed about the possible
dangers inherent in continued open-air nuclear testing. At the time, the American public was being assured that fall-out radiation from the numerous nuclear tests being conducted presented no danger whatsoever.
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