CULTIVATING THE CULTURE OF LIFE: CHALLENGES IN THE 21ST CENTURY GLOBALIZED WORLD

Abstract

In the category of existents, life is the highest property; and within the gambit of the highest property of existents, human life is the supreme good. Although most cultures and positive laws affirm this in principle, the reality is that human life has never been so threatened and demeaned as now. This essay highlighted how, by devising multiple ways of extinguishing life, the 21st century revels in the culture of death left over by the previous era. It identified the ruins of two World Wars; the spate of genocide, murder and fratricidal strife; the instantiation of policies supporting abortion, infanticide and euthanasia; the exploitation of nature resulting in natural disasters; and the greed of individualism, as blips which have all too often been aided by globalization to universally advance the “culture of death” as the new norm. The essay concluded by making a strong case for the defence of human life, rejection of a culture of death, and the cultivation of the “culture of life.”