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Aborting Aristotle – Examining the Fatal Fallacies in the Abortion Debate, Hardback Book

Aborting Aristotle – Examining the Fatal Fallacies in the Abortion Debate Hardback

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The abortion debate has returned. More than forty years have passed since the landmark decision Roe v.

Wade, which legalized abortion in the United States.

But the abortion debate continues to rage among ethicists and the influencers of society in politics, government, and the arts.

Dave Sterrett’s Aborting Aristotle examines these essential differences philosophically, while investigating the naturalistic worldview about humanity that is frequently held by many of the scholarly defenders of abortion. 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. Sterrett draws upon current scientific knowledge of the human embryo to provide reasons for a restoration of the Aristotelian scholastic philosophical tradition that could help ethicists become more open-minded about the dignity and personhood of unborn human beings.

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