ALBERT SCHWEITZER AND ALFRED KORZYBSKI: TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHAMPIONS OF HUMANITY

et Cetera | January 1, 2009| | Copyright

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) and Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950) were European-born contemporaries with powerful and wide-ranging intellects who devoted themselves to alleviating human suffering and advancing human welfare. Both men believed in a unity of idealism and realism and both practiced what they preached.

Schweitzer, like Korzybski, was a polymath. He not only studied but mastered philosophy, music, theology, and medicine. He also became the world's authority on Bach and organ building. At the age of thirty, he went to medical school and devoted the majority of his life to relieving ...

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