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Ben Wiker traces the story that explains our present perplexing moral culture, showing how it was Darwinism that provided the ancient teaching of Epicurus with the seemingly modern and scientific basis that captured twentieth-century minds.

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5.0 out of 5 stars From Epicurus to Darwin, Dec 21 2002

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Phillip Johnson (Berkeley, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Moral Darwinism: How We Became Hedonists (Paperback)

Although I have written six books about Darwinism, I learned much from Ben Wiker's book. Wiker tells the engrossing story of the centuries-long contest between Epicureanism and Christianity, with the Epicureans finally winning their long battle to impose their philosophy on science and the cultural definition of "knowledge." Exploiting the authority of science, Epicureans were able to seize the high moral and intellectual ground for agosticism and materialism,thereby demoting Christianity from its prior intellectual prominence into the marginalized status it now occupies in the intellectual and university world. The Epicurean objective always has been and remains to achieve a moral objective by effectively banning the supernatural from reality, and with it any fear of judgment after death. Attaining this objective prepared the way for all the events we associate with the 1960s. Ben Wiker's intellectual history tells us far more than any scientific book could of the purpose and effect of the long campaign to establish matrialism as the governing philosophy of the world. I highly recommend it.
by Phillip Johnson (author of "Darwin on Trial)< Berkeley, CA USA

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5.0 out of 5 stars All seriousness aside..., Aug 12 2002

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Jennifer A. Atkinson - See all my reviews
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I would like to share my personal knowledge of the author. I have had the pleasure of studying under Dr. Wiker's guidance in three classes at my college. He is intelligent and humourous. He can take a complex subject, break it down, and help you come to understand it and appreciate it, similar to that great writer, C.S. Lewis. I have read a number of other articles that he has written on various subjects, and I have yet to be disappointed by his ability to convey an important and valid idea with simplicity and and a sense of the practical applications of the theoretical. If you have any interest in philosophy, or evolution, or theology: this is a book that is sure to offer a new perspective on all three. You will enjoy it, and come away with new knowledge and new thoughts that you might need to mull over, and consider, before you come back for a second read.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An Important Book!, Dec 31 2002

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This is one of the most important books I have ever read. Wiker writes extremely well and provides much needed research into the history of the battle between Christianity and Epicureanism. He argues persuasively that our culture wars are really cosmological wars. This book clarifies what is at stake and makes the contrast quite clear between the two antithetical and antagonistic worldviews of Materialism and Christianity. This book is highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand the underlying ideas behind our current moral debates.

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