Respect for life as an ecological value

Abstract

The purpose of the Article is a justification of the meaning of respect for life as the ecological value. The article has a problematic structure referring to special parts of the output: the European culture (which constitutes the synthesis of Christianity and humanism), ecological intuition of St. Francis of Assisi, the concept of respect for life by Albert Schweitzer, creating the social and moral order in the life environment in the social thought of the luminaries of the Catholic Church. Key words: heritage of the European culture, Christian humanism, ecological humanism, the value of respect for life.