The Last Superstition by Edward Feser5/21/2023 ![]() For even if, per impossibile, their atheism turned out to be correct, they would not have arrived at it by rational means, shamelessly caricaturing as they do the best arguments for the other side, when they are not ignoring them altogether. Then, however, for a variety of reasons, I relegated that. ![]() I first read Edward Feser’s The Last Superstition a few years ago, as part of an earlier effort at understanding Thomas Aquinas’s attempts at proving the existence of God. That alone suffices to show that the arguments of Dawkins and his gang are worthless. Feser on Faith in The Last Superstition 1: Pure Reason and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. ![]() ![]() Whatever one’s ultimate appraisal of these arguments, the New Atheist’s pretense that a religious view of the world can only ever be the result of wishful thinking rather than objective rational argumentation is thereby exposed as a falsehood, the product, if not of willful deception, at least of inexcusable ignorance of the views of the most significant religious thinkers. There is no appeal to “faith,” or to parapsychology, ghost stories, near-death experiences, or any other evidence of the sort materialists routinely dismiss as scientifically dubious. “Notice in any event that at every point in Aquinas’s account of the soul, as at every point in his arguments for God’s existence, the appeal is to what follows rationally from such Aristotelian metaphysical notions as the formal and final causes of a thing. Feser on Faith in The Last Superstition 1: Pure Reason and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. ![]()
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