Healing the Culture

Product Description

Spitzer, President of Gonzaga University, provides key principles used over the last eight years to educate people of all backgrounds in the philosophy of the pro-life movement, and to start the Life Principles Institute.

He effectively draws the connections between personal attitudes toward happiness and the meaning of life, and the larger cultural issues such as freedom and human rights. He offers definitions of the key cultural terms affecting life issues, including Happiness, Success, Love, Suffering, Quality of Life, Ethics, Freedom, Personhood, Human Rights and the Common Good.

Healing the Culture presents the most comprehensive philosophy of the pro-life movement in print today. More than an explanation of the life issues, this book is a guide to enhanced meaning and purpose in life.

SECTIONS INCLUDE:
- Defining the Human Person
- Defining "Happiness"
- Moving Through the Levels of Happiness
- Suffering Well
- Ethics and Freedom
- Person, Rights and the Common Good
- Abortion
- Euthanasia

"An excellent resource for examining the life issues in their broadest and most profound context. It is also an encouraging and accessible tool for responding to the Holy Father's challenge to build a 'culture of life'." -- Cardinal Francis George, Archbishop of Chicago

"Every great once in a while, a book comes along that pulls together a multitude of perplexing questions and presents them in a form readily understandable to the general reader. Healing the Culture is such a book." -- Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, Editor, First Things

"Healing the Culture shows us how to escape the lethal cul-de-sac of "I did it my way" and get back onto the path of doing it the right way -- which is the road to happiness and excellence." -- George Weigel, Author, Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II

"This splendid book restores philosophy to its status as a practical art and science. It is both a guidebook for living a good and happy life, and a handbook for thinking through some of the most troubling issues afflicting our society." -- Robert P. George, Princeton University

"Drawing on his expertise in philosophy and psychology, Spitzer shows in many practical ways how we can transcend 'ego-centric materialism' to attain true happiness. This important, readable book should be read by all." -- Charles Rice, University of Notre Dame