Wiker, Benjamin

Moral Darwinism : How We Became Hedonists / Benjamin Wiker - Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, 2002 - 327 p. ; 23 cm.

It all started with Epicurus -- Lucretius, the first Darwinian -- Christianity versus Epicureanism -- The fall and rise of Epicureanism -- Newtonianism : the new face of Epicurean materialism -- The moral revolution of materialism -- The taming of Christianity, or Scripture declawed -- Epicureanism becomes Darwinism -- How we became hedonists.

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Darwin, Charles,—1809-1882—Influence.Hedonism—Religious aspects—Christianity.Epicureans (Greek philosophy).

BR115.H43 / .W55 2002