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Individualism and an Ethical Life |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / ESSAYS |
| Author: Walter Poznar |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1997 |
| Size: 4,618 Words, 27,853 Characters |
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FOOTNOTE: 1"It was a wholly unpremeditated act: "The reason for that act of apparent lunacy was a sudden enamouredness with unreason itself." FOOTNOTE: 2 Koestler notes that he could have easily invented a plausible reason for this insane action, but he refused to do so.
No less remarkable was Albert Schweitzer's decision to become a jungle doctor:
"My relatives and my friends all joined in expostulating with me on the folly of my enterprise. I was a man, they said, who was burying the talent entrusted to him and wanted to trade with false currency. Work among savages I ought to leave to those who would not thereby be compelled to leave gifts and acquirements in science and art unused. FOOTNOTE: 3"
Schweitzer explains his reasons for having come to this conclusion and having chose...
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...The Sayings of Confucius, tr. Lionel Giles (Boston: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1993), 104.
FOOTNOTE: 5.The Stoic and Epicurean Philosophers, ed. Whitney J. Oates (New York: Random House, 1940), 32.
FOOTNOTE: 6.Stoic, 513.
FOOTNOTE: 7.Stoic, 37.
FOOTNOTE: 8.Stoic, 518.
FOOTNOTE: 9.The Works of Schopenhauer, ed. Will Durant (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1955), 282.
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