Donald DeMarco

Not particularly a fun book to read, but you will want to read it for the information if you are for the right to life. The book is divided into seven sections:

1. The Will Worshipers

Arthur Schopenhauer
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ayn 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

One thing that bugged me about this book is that it refers to the Pope as "The Holy Father". I find this blasphemous. Still, if you care about the right to life issue you should read this.… (mehr)

This is an excellent book; a superb resource. The author introduces the necessity of virtues, what they are, and their warrant or the origin. Each chapter begins with a story or stories that illustrate that particular virtue, and then the author provides some further analysis of how that virtue may be developed in one’s own life.

Two features of this book that help it rise above “Tending the Heart of Virtue “ and other books like are the definitions and the in-line references to other books. Reasoning or arguments begin with proper definitions, and this book provides helpful definitions of the virtues. Secondly, this is one of those books that inspire the reading of other books.… (mehr)

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.… (mehr)