Albert Schweitzer MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Albert Schweitzer? Albert Schweitzer is an INFP personality type in MBTI, 5w4 - so/sp - in Enneagram, in Big 5, EII in Socionics.
"Reverence for Life is a translation of the German Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben, and the word “reverence” is really not quite adequate. It lacks the German word’s overtones of awe before an overwhelming force. Ehrfurcht is respect carried to ultimate lengths. It holds reverberations of the feelings we experience on the tops of high mountains, in a storm at sea, or in a tropical tornado. This was the element that the African jungle gave to Schweitzer’s thinking — the acknowledgment of immensity and of overwhelming power, the force of continuing life and ever-present death in the vastness of nature, carrying with it an unavoidable sense of moral responsibility toward life in all its forms. This is a poetic concept. It came to him after much diligent thought, true, but it came out of the blue, an intuition, not a logical answer to an intellectual problem. So how can he call it a product of thought, or worse still, a necessity of thought? Many readers of Schweitzer have been troubled by this problem and have criticized him for failing to notice that Reverence for Life is not a necessity of thought, that no logical sequence of propositions compels anyone to arrive at Reverence for Life. It is simply Schweitzer’s own personal view of life summed up in a phrase, and thought has nothing to do with it." -Albert Schweitzer: Essential Writing, Rhena Schweitzer Miller "It is not from kindness to others that I am gentle, peaceable, forbearing, and friendly, but because by such behavior I prove my own profoundest self-realization to be true. Reverence for life which I apply to my own existence, and reverence for life which keeps me in a temper of devotion to other existence than my own, interpenetrate each other. " -Civiliazation and Ethics, Albert Schweitzer
Biography
Albert Schweitzer, OM (14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was an Alsatian polymath. He was a theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. A Lutheran, Schweitzer challenged both the secular view of Jesus as depicted by the historical-critical method current at this time, as well as the traditional Christian view. His contributions to the interpretation of Pauline Christianity concern the role of Paul's mysticism of "being in Christ" as primary and the doctrine of Justification by Faith as secondary. He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life", becoming the eighth Frenchman to be awarded that prize.
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