![]() ![]() As Feser puts it: “Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders of modern philosophy did, was the single greatest mistake ever made in the entire history of Western thought”. Not because Aquinas himself was ever refuted, but because he was ignored. Everything after Aquinas, Feser laments, has gone downhill. The contention of The Last Superstition is that Aristotelianism is basically correct, and that philosophy more-or-less reached its zenith with Thomas Aquinas. The tactic of The Last Superstition is to simply appeal to the classical philosophical tradition that has already been around for thousands of years, and show how that great tradition bears on the atheist claims that we hear so much of today.īut this strategy may be off-putting to some Christians as well – Feser is not only arguing against atheism, he’s arguing against most of what is normally called ‘modern’ philosophy. In fact, he is hardly even writing anything new at all. Feser himself does little in the way of speculation. This is not a book filled with the author’s own opinions, rather it’s a book that tries to lay out basic underlying foundations. ![]() This alone may tell you whether or not this book is ‘for you’ or not – it introduces Feser’s polemic style, and it also tells you its goal. The title of Edward Feser’s book The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism sets the tone for the entire work, as it asserts in bold letters across the cover that atheism is the ultimate ‘superstition’. ![]()
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