Zwischen Wasser und Urwald

Schweitzer, Albert

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“…On the one hand, Chakrabarty approves the Enlightenment ideas of nineteenthcentury liberals, such as ''modernism, liberal values, universals, science, reason, grand narrative'' (42). Rejecting cultural relativism (43), he argues these are valid not only for Europe but also for the Third World.…”

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“…. so that the world may once again be imagined as radically heterogeneous'' (45)(46). Only such a heterogeneous world-view can effectively counteract the liberal-colonialist-Eurocentric mindset.…”

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“…On the other hand, both sides rejected the traditional dogmas about Jesus and emphasized his ethics as the core of Christianity. Schweitzer dismissed dogma as useless, and focused only on living according to Jesus' ethics or ''act'' (53), and deemed the Sermon on the Mount to be ''the incontestable charter of liberal Christianity'' (58).…”

Section: The Liberal and Humanitarian Motives Of Schweitzer's MImentioning

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“…It would lend him one building as a hospital on a biennial basis, which he was to use until he built a new, more spacious, hospital. 42 The society strictly forbade him to teach the Bible to Africans, nor would it give him any financial support. The last condition had a very practical implication, for Schweitzer alone was responsible for financing his mission.…”

Section: The Liberal and Humanitarian Motives Of Schweitzer's MImentioning

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Provincializing Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Colonialism in Africa

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2011

The European Legacy

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Unlike many commentators who tend to see Schweitzer's mission one-sidedly, I show the coexistence of liberal and conservative elements in his mission. While his mission intent was mostly motivated by the former, his mission practices largely show the latter. In this essay, I analyze them in detail in three parts. I first explain how such opposite elements can coexist by applying Dipesh Chakrabarty's notion of provincializing Europe. Like most nineteenth-century Western liberals, Schweitzer advocated Enlightenment rights for Europeans, but denied them to the colonized. I then argue that Schweitzer's mission was motivated by the liberal elements of his theology. When his critical theology led him to deny the divinity of Jesus, he found a new basis for Christianity in Jesus' ethical activism, which led him to become a medical missionary to Africa. I then examine Schweitzer's conservative practices in Africa: by applying the developmental model of Hegelian-Marxist historicism to African society, Schweitzer opposed both decolonization and advanced learning to Africans. Schweitzer's missionary practices in Africa, I therefore conclude, were more conservative than those of the typical European missionary.

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Section: The Liberal and Humanitarian Motives Of Schweitzer's MImentioning

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Section: The Liberal and Humanitarian Motives Of Schweitzer's MImentioning

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Provincializing Albert Schweitzer's Ethical Colonialism in Africa

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The European Legacy

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“…Schweitzer selfheroicised throughout his life and his writings found an echo in worldwide media coverage which has not abated since. 16 Though his medical work has often been criticised since, he stood out as a genuine humanist and theologian whose reputation was global and probably greater outside than within France, especially in Germany and the USA but also in Africa.…”

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