I just got my hands on the book 'The Last Superstition - A Refutation of the New Atheism' by Edward Feser. Get a copy for yourself.
I tracked it down yesterday at the public library -- I'm currently unemployed, so I want to keep my spending down. I'm up to page 65, and I knew by page three that I'd want to buy a permanent copy (I plan to order it today).
Mr Feser blogs at "Edward Feser" and at "What's Wrong with the World."
Friday, July 3, 2009
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I think I'll buy it ASAP!
Well, *you* might take offence at the tone he employs.
But it is good. I think I'd like to systematically blog (would that be to "slog?") on it at some point. Not that I expect I ever will.
It's not out in paperback. The copy I've ordered is going to set me back $27.
$27 is not a bad price. I’ve heard some moaning about his tone—but from the looks of his blog style behavior, he sure seems like a decent enough guy. Happy 4th and enjoy your unemployment. I'm a California State worker and may find myself unemployed very soon. Oh well!
Well, when you do read it, tell me if you don't think to yourself, "What?! Did Ilíon ghost-write this?"
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I'll sell you my copy, cheap.
Do you mind phrases like "wrong again", "what a crock", and "another howler" scrawled across every other page?
SelfBeguiled,
I think you'd find better use of you time bothering someone else.
I'd buy the book if I had the money, but I have many other books I want too and I can't afford those right now, either.
Sorry to hear you're unemployed.
Try the library.
The book interesting ... and also hard to wrap one's mind around. I don't say this as faulting it, but rather as pointing out the concepts Feser is working with are so unfamiliar to all us moderns, Christian and 'atheist' alike. For all our thinking has been so shaped (distorted may be a more apt term) by Humean skepticism and the so-called Enlightenment, that trying to really grasp what Aristotle and Aquinas are about is mind-bending. I'm going to need to re-read the book at least once.
And thanks. Though, since I haven't even tried to get a new job (I hate interviewing), I can hold only myself accountable that I'm still unemployed.
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