Thinkers Behind the Culture of Death (Part 1 or 3)

Catholic Online ^ | 11/12/2004 - 6:00 AM PST | www,Catholic.org

[Murtyo]

article about book called "Architects of the Culture of Death" which deals with the thinkers who contributed most significantly to the "Culture of Death"

[Murtyo]

PART II - http://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=1521

PART III - http://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=1521

[Murtyo]

PART III - http://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=1526 Ooops.

[hombre_sincero]

Looks interesting - pinging myself to remember it!

[Murtyo]

http://www.overstock.com/cgi-bin/d2.cgi?page=proframe&prod_id=1119834

cheapest I can find it online (used www.pricegrabber.com) - for folks who want to read it.

[Murtyo]

yea, I just read the all the articles and it's a very interesting way to look at this. Here's the front of the book from Amazon.com

[Nateman]

Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche and Ayn Rand give so much prominence to the will that there was little left over for reason. Historians have referred to this triad as "irrational vitalists."

Either this guy is lying or just ignorant about Any Rand. She was a champion of reason. She despised people who did things by whim ( or "will" ) . She would have also pointed out that she is being called  an " irrational vitalist" without anyone defining the term. She complained plenty about Catholic dogma so she is fair game but I find it odd that they should pick her out of so many others thereby giving her prominence.

[Murtyo]

I thought that Rand was an unexpected inclusion in this list!! But I donno much about her at all.

I doubt that he's lying or ignorant though - the authors are coming at this from a very Christian/Catholic perspective and her reasoning that all our actions are selfish goes against Christianity!

[TheSarce]

Interesting ping.

[lainde]

bttt

[Murtyo]

bttt???

[Nateman]

her reasoning that all our actions are selfish goes against Christianity!

She would be the first to say that all our actions are not selfish. However selfish acts that are reasonable she would call the good and that is against the Christian view of sacrifice for others as being the good. If they are going to criticize her, at least they should do so truthfully. It's no better than Dan Rather taking in fraudulent stories in order to nail Bush.

[TASMANIANRED]

bump

[isrul]

I agree and I wouldn't consider her a thinker behind the culture of death.

[little jeremiah]

later read...ping?

[giotto]

The author undermines his own argument by including Ayn Rand in his list. Her philosophy was the very antithesis of Marx's.

I don't know. Any book that treats Helen Gurley Brown as a philosopher is probably not to be taken seriously.

[Frank_2001]

Interesting post!

[unsycophant]

Topics like this are philosophical, and sometimes interesting to discuss and debate, but when the subject matter is open to interpretation, it's best not to present it as fact.

(Which is what this book seems to do.)

It would be as easy to write something called "Architects of the Culture of Life", including 20 examples of contributions people have made to life and the sanctity of. Repeated enough, one could then conclude that ours is a "Culture of Life" rather than Death.

Rush got on the Culture of Death kick a while back also, which didn't help our side. The whole idea that our culture is one of "death" is absurd and someone should have spanked him for contributing to the culture of drivel.