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Aborting Aristotle: Examining the Fatal Fallacies in the Abortion Debate - Hardcover

Sterrett, Dave

 
9781587310034: Aborting Aristotle: Examining the Fatal Fallacies in the Abortion Debate
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1587310031 ISBN 13: 9781587310034
Verlag: ST AUGUSTINES PR INC, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

"Each year 44 million babies are killed from intentional abortion around the world. 1.29 million babies are aborted right here in the United States. These are not just merely cold statistics: These are human beings . . . real babies. Sterrett reveals theunreasonableness of abortion and argues against abortion even in the difficult circumstances. In the ancient world, infanticide was defended by Plato and Aristotle. Christians who believed in the sacredness of human life stopped infanticide and intellectually argued against the practice. Peter Singer, professor of ethics at Princeton, hopes the time has come for atheists to reassess the morality of infanticide "without assuming the Christian moral framework that has, for so long, prevented any fundamental reassessment" [Peter Singer, Practical Ethics (Cambridge University Press, UK; 1993), 173.] Dave Sterrett takes on Peter Singer, along with other scholarly defenders of abortion, including David Boonin, Michael Tooley, and Judith Jarvis Thomson. Although he is against Aristotle's teaching in favor of abortion, Sterrett argues that Aristotle had much good in his metaphysical and logical teachings that Western education has forgotten"--

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Dave Sterrett, author of seven books including the Christian best-seller I Am Second (Thomas Nelson), holds graduate degrees from the University of Dallas and Southern Evangelical Seminary. He has lectured on bioethics and natural theology at many universities. He is the national director of outreach for Online for Life and serves on the national board of 40 Days for Life.

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Verlag
ST AUGUSTINES PR INC
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1587310031
ISBN 13 
9781587310034
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
120
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