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Architects of the culture of death / Donald De Marco and Benjamin D. Wiker.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: San Francisco : Ignatius Press, c2004.Description: 410 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 1586170163 (pbk.)
  • 9781586170165 (pbk.)
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Contents:
1. The will worshippers: Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Any Rand -- 2. The eugenic evolutionists: Charles Darwin, Francis Galton, Ernst Haeckel -- 3. The secular utopianists: Karl Marx, Auguste Comte, Judith Jarvis Thomson -- 4. The atheistic existentialists: Jean-Paul sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Elisabeth Badinter -- 5. The pleasure seekers: Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Helen Gurley Brown -- 6. The sex planners: Margaret Mead, Alfred Kinsey, Margaret Sanger, Clarence Gamble, Alan Guttmacher -- 7. The death peddlers: Derek Humphry, Jack Kevorkian, Peter Singer -- Conclusion: Personalism and the culture of life.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The phrase, "the Culture of Death", is bandied about as a catch-all term that covers abortion, euthanasia and other attacks on the sanctity of life. In Architects of the Culture of Death , authors Donald DeMarco and Benjamin Wiker expose the Culture of Death as an intentional and malevolent ideology promoted by influential thinkers who specifically attack Christian morality's core belief in the sanctity of human life and the existence of man's immortal soul. In scholarly, yet reader-friendly prose, DeMarco and Wiker examine the roots of the Culture of Death by introducing 23 of its architects, including Ayn Rand, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, Alfred Kinsey, Margaret Sanger, Jack Kevorkian, and Peter Singer.

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, the future of the Culture of Life relies 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The will worshippers: Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Any Rand -- 2. The eugenic evolutionists: Charles Darwin, Francis Galton, Ernst Haeckel -- 3. The secular utopianists: Karl Marx, Auguste Comte, Judith Jarvis Thomson -- 4. The atheistic existentialists: Jean-Paul sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Elisabeth Badinter -- 5. The pleasure seekers: Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Helen Gurley Brown -- 6. The sex planners: Margaret Mead, Alfred Kinsey, Margaret Sanger, Clarence Gamble, Alan Guttmacher -- 7. The death peddlers: Derek Humphry, Jack Kevorkian, Peter Singer -- Conclusion: Personalism and the culture of life.

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