Ebook {Epub PDF} The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism by Edward Feser

8 rows · The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism. The Last Superstition.: Edward 3/5(5). The Last Superstition, A Refutation of the New Atheism, by Edward Feser, goes beyond the field of apologetics (defense of the Christian faith) into philosophy. Feser himself was an atheist who came to a belief in God through his studies in philosophy—in particular, the works of certain secularists, who in spite of themselves, argued for unexplained abstracts that naturalism fails to answer. But as Edward Feser shows in The Last Superstition, there is not, and never has been, any war between science and religion at all. There has instead been a conflict between two entirely philosophical worldviews: the classical "teleological vision" of Plato, Artistotle, Augustine, and Aquinas, on which purpose or goal-directedness is as inherent a feature of the material world as mass or electric charge; User Interaction Count:

This series originally began 5 August The links to the remainder are below. Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part Interlude, Part IV, Part V, Part VI. Part Last.. This begins a series of posts reviewing Ed (if I may call him that; for all I know he goes by the more elegant Edward) Feser's The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism. The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism Author: Edward Feser Hardcover Paperback: pages Publisher: St. Augustine's Press () Reviewer: G Veale In Britains' education secretary, Charles Clarke declared that British Universities existed to serve the economy. THE LAST SUPERSTITION. A REFUTATION OF THE NEW ATHEISM *** By Edward Feser *** The Montréal Review, November *** "The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism" by Edward Feser (St. Augustines Press, ) *** Available on Amazon US and Amazon Canada *** "[Feser] has the rare and enviable gift of making philosophical argument.

THE LAST SUPERSTITION. "The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism" by Edward Feser (St. Augustines Press, ) " [Feser] has the rare and enviable gift of making philosophical argument compulsively readable. So The Last Superstition succeeds as a refutation of the New Atheism. Indeed, Feser points out that early modern philosophers like Locke and Hume failed to provide compelling critiques of the scholastic worldview (a point substantiated by Anthony Kenny in his magisterial A New History of Western Philosophy (Oxford). Many influential arguments advanced by the Enlightenment men simply did not get to grips with the scholastic worldview; the early moderns tore down a straw man. But as Edward Feser shows in The Last Superstition, there is not, and never has been, any war between science and religion at all. There has instead been a conflict between two entirely philosophical worldviews: the classical "teleological vision" of Plato, Artistotle, Augustine, and Aquinas, on which purpose or goal-directedness is as inherent a feature of the material world as mass or electric charge; and the modern "mechanical" vision of Descartees, Hobbes, Locke, and Hume, according to.