Edward Feser’s claim that there can be no morality without Aristotelianism is silly. But should we continue to accept Aristotle’s metaphysics in the face of modern science anyway? The answer is no–and understanding why will help us understand modern science. Aristotle’s theory of change Aristotle’s metaphysics has two key components: his theory of change, and [...]
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Review of Edward Feser’s The Last Superstition Part I: Morality
Posted by Chris Hallquist on February 25, 2009
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Edward Feser’s The Last Superstition is possibly the most entertaining and original of the various anti-atheist books that have come out in the past two years, if for no other reason than that it’s thesis is so radical: that rejection of Scholastic Aristotelianism is responsible for atheism, same-sex marriage, bestiality, necrophilia, the coming fall of [...]
Review: Keith Ward’s Is Religion Dangerous?
Posted by Chris Hallquist on February 13, 2009
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These reviews of Dawkins’ Fleas are pretty routine by now, so let me do a run down of major contacts: Literalism: Ward hits the literalism issue hard, in a way that most writers don’t. Within this topic, there’s a strong emphasis on what anthropology tells us about whether religion was originally taken literally or figuratively. [...]
Non-review: Charles Taylor’s The Secular Age
Posted by Chris Hallquist on February 5, 2009
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I picked up a copy of Charles Taylor’s _The Secular Age_ because I heard it listed as an example of a response to Dawkins et al. I didn’t finish it, because it hardly responds to them at all, save for in one footnote (p. 835n): Dawkins’ reasons for believing that science can sideline religion hardly [...]
Review: David Berlinski’s The Devil’s Delusion
Posted by Chris Hallquist on February 3, 2009
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As I wade through the sludge of recent anti-atheist tracts, I keep trying to think of ways to make my reviews amusing. For this review of David Berlinski’s book The Devil’s Delusion, I think I can sum it up this way: Berlinksi is one of the mathematicians my mother warned me about. Mom has a [...]