Pertinent Trivia Question #3

[hunt4horns]

Doc Holliday

[Huntn coues]

Come on Tony give us a hint. Was he/she a doctor?????

[Outdoor Writer]

Come on Tony give us a hint. Was he/she a doctor?????

 

He's dead!

 

He also received a Nobel prize. -TONY

[Huntn coues]

Churchill

[Huntn coues]

That's the only nobel prize winner I know. Well I think W.Wilson did to.

[Outdoor Writer]

Churchill

 

Nope. Sorta the same era, tho. -TONY

[Outdoor Writer]

That's the only nobel prize winner I know. Well I think W.Wilson did to.

 

In addition to being a theologian, philosopher and physician, he was also musician. I should have also been more exact in that he won the Nobel PEACE Prize. -TONY

[crotalus]

Ghandi ...

[bobbyo]

Has to be Albert Schweitzer. Physician gave it away. If it isn't i will eat my corona bottle.

Bob

[Tines]

Aldo Luepold

 

I doubt Ol' Aldo would have ever said anything like that. He was very PRO hunting.

 

And none of the other guesses are right either. Don't forget; no googling! -TONY

 

Actually Aldo said something VERY similar to what was said. I'll get the quote for you when I get home from work................Friday. He was pretty outspoken about wildlife conservation and respect that all animals deserve..... even those most of us feel are nuisances.

 

“The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?”

 

 

This may be a slap in the face to some but how is taking pleasure in killing an animal for sport NOT a mental aberration?

[Outdoor Writer]

Has to be Albert Schweitzer. Physician gave it away. If it isn't i will eat my corona bottle.

Bob

 

And the winner is.............Bob. Good show!

 

A little about the man and the reason for the quoted text that started this thread:

 

The Nobel Peace Prize of 1952 was awarded to Dr. Albert Schweitzer. The Problem of Peace lecture by Albert Schweitzer is considered one of the best speeches ever given.

 

Schweitzer's worldview was based on his idea of reverence for life ("Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben"), which he believed to be his greatest single contribution to humankind. His view was that Western civilization was in decay because of gradually abandoning its ethical foundations - those of affirmation of life. It was his firm conviction that the respect for life is the highest principle.

 

The will to live is naturally both parasitic and antagonistic towards other forms of life. Only in the thinking being has the will to live become conscious of other will to live, and desirous of solidarity with it. This solidarity, however, cannot be brought about, because human life does not escape the puzzling and horrible circumstance that it must live at the cost of other life. But as an ethical being one strives to escape whenever possible from this necessity, and to put a stop to this disunion of the Will to live, so far as it is within one's power.

 

Schweitzer advocated the concept of reverence for life widely throughout his entire life. The historical Enlightenment waned and corrupted itself, Schweitzer held, because it has not been well enough grounded in thought, but compulsively followed the ethical will-to-live. Hence, he looked forward to a renewed and more profound Renaissance and Enlightenment of humanity (a view he expressed in the epilogue of his autobiography, Out of My Life and Thought). Albert Schweitzer nourished hope in a humankind that is more profoundly aware of its position in the Universe. His optimism was based in "belief in truth". "The spirit generated by [conceiving of] truth is greater than the force of circumstances." He persistently emphasized the necessity to think, rather than merely acting on basis of passing impulses or by following the most widespread opinions.

[Huntn coues]

OH that Al.

 

I knew that.