Albert Schweitzer and Jainism on Reverence for Life

In the recent decades there is considerable development in environmental ethics that tries to regulate human relationship with other life-forms and the right attitude towards the environment which sustains them. Nevertheless, many, like the Jain nun Sadhvi Shilapi, think that the humanity has been awakened to this broader ethics not because humans have begun to hear the cries of animals, plants and other forms of life