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001 2015005659
003 DLC
005 20151017082200.0
008 150227s2015 inu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015005659
020 $a9781587310034 (hardback : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aHQ767.15$b.S745 2015
082 00 $a179.7/6$223
084 $aSOC046000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aSterrett, Dave.
245 10 $aAborting Aristotle :$bexamining the fatal fallacies in the abortion debate /$cDave Sterrett.
264 1 $aSouth Bend, Indiana :$bSt. Augustines Press,$c[2015]
300 $avi,121 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Each year 44 million babies are killed from intentional abortion around the world. 1.29 million babies are aborted right here in the United States. These are not just merely cold statistics: These are human beings . . . real babies. Sterrett reveals the unreasonableness of abortion and argues against abortion even in the difficult circumstances. In the ancient world, infanticide was defended by Plato and Aristotle. Christians who believed in the sacredness of human life stopped infanticide and intellectually argued against the practice. Peter Singer, professor of ethics at Princeton, hopes the time has come for atheists to reassess the morality of infanticide "without assuming the Christian moral framework that has, for so long, prevented any fundamental reassessment" [Peter Singer, Practical Ethics (Cambridge University Press, UK; 1993), 173.] Dave Sterrett takes on Peter Singer, along with other scholarly defenders of abortion, including David Boonin, Michael Tooley, and Judith Jarvis Thomson. Although he is against Aristotle's teaching in favor of abortion, Sterrett argues that Aristotle had much good in his metaphysical and logical teachings that Western education has forgotten"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages115-118) and index.
600 10 $aAristotle.
650 0 $aAbortion$xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Abortion & Birth Control.$2bisacsh