Percy Mark, Reverence for Life UK Ambassador, recently spoke at The Schweitzer Institute Conference 2023, held at Peterhouse College in Cambridge.
The conference commemorated the centennial of Albert Schweitzer's seminal two-volume work the “Philosophy of Civilisation”, originally published in Berlin in 1923.
Percy Mark’s talk discussed how he came to translate essential parts of Schweitzer’s volume three, “The World View of Reverence for Life”, into English. He addresses why volume three remained incomplete and why Schweitzer did not write volume four, therefore never bringing his cultural philosophy to a conclusion.
Watch a recording of his talk here.
Read Percy Mark’s essay, ‘A Hundred Years On: Schweitzer’s Philosophy of Civilisation’ in the Schweitzer Institute Journal Volume II.
The Schweitzer Institute Journal Volume II
