What is the best anti Catholicism, pro individualism book that exists?

Answer 1

Actually Catholicism is a very philosophical religion and has a policy of adapting to current philosophies, refining them and turning them into weapons for the religion. I have seen a Catholic philosopher dismantle Nietzsche and then turn around, take Nietzsche's main points and show how only Catholicism can answer them and bring them into a new light that correctly understand the human condition.

For the books that you are looking for, I would probably suggest looking at the philosophers that Catholics react to because if the philosopher is not on the radar screen, their arguments cannot be considered to be worth responding to.

To that end, I would suggest the works of Kant and Hume, but only because they raise interesting points that have greatly shaped much of modern thought. Catholicism has dialoged long and hard with these philosophers and their offspring.

Just so you and the first poster know, there is such a thing as Catholic existentialism and Catholicism has zero problem dealing with Sartre, Camus, etc. If you look at the late Pope John Paul II, his philosophy is a sound Thomism informed by, and in dialogue with, modern existentialism, phenomenology, and personalize.

Thus I do not believe that you can find a book that is "the anti Catholicism, pro individualism book that exists" simply because to be "the best" Catholic's cannot respond well to its arguments through the philosophical medium.

Remember, Catholics are not Protestants. Sound rational philosophy is a central ingredient in Catholic theology and their practice of the Faith.

Let me suggest some philosophers that you might enjoy dialoging with, even if you disagree. I do not agree with all of the below and they are of different religions, but they deal with the topic of individualism from many different angles within western philosophy. Hopefully, they will help you to increase you philosophical understanding. Just look up their writings and pick from amongst them.

Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II)
Gabriel Marcel
Martin Buber
Dietrich von Hildebrand
Alice von Hildebrand
Pascal
Kierkegaard

And of course it is good to compare Plato vs Aristotle (and Augustine (Platonic) vs. Aquinas (Aristotelian) ) on the same topic.

Answer 2

The best anti-Catholic book would be the Bible itself. Nothing else (except maybe for Hawking's "A Brief History of Time") can be used as much in the attack against Catholicism. As far as I know anthing by a Transcendentalist would be a good place to look for pro-induvidualist ideals.

Answer 3

It exists for an identical reason that antisemitism, anti-Baptists, anti-Islam, anti-even though exists. guy has interpreted scriptures, refused to check historic previous, technology, situations & dates, traditions, on and on. They disagree because of the fact the human mind ninety 9% of the time considers itself perfect and that one and all different minds would desire to agree. we are basically a fragment of the smart power yet evaluate our recommendations as being the way. it rather is perplexing to even evaluate the undeniable fact that our recommendations and conclusions would be defective. we'd crumble and fall into the abyss if we even seen the prospect. hiya - who cares who's anti. Open your recommendations to the prospect that we in simple terms won't have each and every of the solutions.

Answer 4

The fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Atlas shrugged by Ayn Rand
The stranger by Albert Camus
Thus spoke zarathustra by F. Nietzsche
Nausea by Sartre

besides Ayn rand, all of these books are based on existentialism and rand's are based on objectivism

Any of these books should open ur eyes

Good luck

Answer 5

Letter to a Christian nation, by Sam Harris
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins
Both just published

Answer 6

a thoughtful ruminative reading and rereading of my posts might be the best thing you can read for that

my thought is derived from the teachings of the very greatest thinkers, not easily available in the marketplace