Asociality of the Albert Schweitzer’s Ethics: a Fact or a Myth?

Abstract

This report completes our series of short notes on Albert Schweitzer’s ethical concept. It aims to consider the asocial nature of Schweitzer’s ethical concept and worldview. The scientific novelty of the research is determined by the analy­sis of an assumption that “individualism and immoralism” of Schweitzer’s ethics act as insurmountable obstacles to its social reception. The results obtained con­sist in the discussion of the conceptual idea of a society as an ethical person, i.e. an ethical-oriented formation. At the same time, we consider whether the de­velopment of the society from the individual to the general through an individual ethically motivated self-development of each person is possible and necessary.