Architects of the Culture of Death

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Ignatius Press, 2004 - 410 pagina's
"The 'Culture of Death' has become a popular phrase, and is much bandied about in academic circles. Yet, for most people, its meaning remains vague and remote. DeMarco and Wiker have given the Culture of Death high definition and frightening immediacy. They have exposed its roots by introducing its architects. In a scholarly, yet reader-friendly delineation of the mindsets of twenty-three influential thinkers, such as Ayn Rand, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, Alfred Kinsey, Margaret Sanger, Jack Kevorkian, and Peter Singer, they make clear the aberrant thought and malevolent intentions that have shaped the Culture of Death. Still, this is not a book without hope. If the Culture of Death rests on a fragmented view of the person and an eclipse of God, hope for the Culture of Life rests on an understanding and restoration of the human being as a person, and the rediscovery of a benevolent God. The Personalism of John Paul II is an illuminating thread that runs through Architects, serving as a hopeful antidote." -- BOOK JACKET.

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Foreword by Judie Brown
11
THE WILL WORSHIPPERS
22
Karl Marx
121
Auguste Comte
135
Judith Jarvis Thomson
148
JeanPaul Sartre
163
Elisabeth Badinter
191
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Benjamin Wiker is the author of Moral Darwinism.Donald De Marco, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Jerome's College, Ontario, has written hundreds of magazine articles, and is the author of eleven books.

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