Aborting Aristotle
Subtitle: examining the fatal fallacies in the abortion debate
By: Dave Sterrett
Publisher: St. Augustines Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: South Bend, Indiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781587310034
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Abortion; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Abortion & Birth Control
Description: "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 the unreasonableness 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages115-118) and index.