Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
Summary
The patching could go on, but it is hard to see a long and beneficial future for an ethic as paradoxical, incoherent and dependent on pretense as our conventional sanctity of life ethic has become . . . It is time for another Copernican revolution. It will be, once again, a revolution against a set of ideas we have inherited from the period in which the intellectual world was dominated by a religious outlook.
Peter Singer, Rethinking Life and DeathSinger's support of infanticide, euthanasia, and bestiality shows the consistency of an anti-Christian, ultimately antihuman philosophy. A true Christian humanism thus shines in stark relief, affirming the correct intuitions of others that all creatures have worth for their own and God's sake, not mere utility.
Gordon Preece, Rethinking Peter SingerThere is a time-honored strategy for young people at an academic conference: peruse the publishers' tables while hoping that a conversation breaks out with a really important thinker with whom you've always wanted to exchange. Not that long ago, I was fortunate enough to have this strategy pay off with one of my favorite distinguished Christian ethicists. I had read all of his books, and was anxious to get his reaction to a book I was writing on Peter Singer and to the fact that I was going to meet with Singer personally to discuss my project. He responded with a worried glance and said, “Be careful, Charlie, you're going to like him.”
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- Peter Singer and Christian EthicsBeyond Polarization, pp. 1 - 10Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012