- Spinoza on final causes - Whats Wrong with the World
Spinoza’s discussion has three parts: first, an account of the origins of belief in final causes; second, a set of arguments purporting to show that final causes do not exist; and third, a discussion of the implications of abandoning final causes for our judgments concerning good and evil, order and disorder, beauty and ugliness
- Edward Feser: Aristotle’s four causes versus pantheism - Blogger
The material cause of a thing is, to put it crudely, what it’s made of When you say, as Spinoza and other pantheists do, that the things of our experience are really modes of God, you are in effect making God their material cause
- The Last Superstition on Final Causes - BdSpinoza
Feser is most helpful when he explains that the New Atheism of Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens, and Harris is not — contrary to their noisy assertions — based on physical science It is a philosophical argument, and one that is not as strong as the argument for theism "
- Aristotle’s Revenge: The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and . . .
He contrasts this metaphysics with what he calls ‘the mechanical philosophy’, specifically the metaphysics of early modern philosophers who were critical of Aristotle, such as Descartes, Hobbes, Locke and Spinoza
- Aristotle’s Revenge: The Metaphysical Foundations of Ph…
Ever since Aristotle was stabbed 23 times in the Curia of Science by Descartes, Hobbs, Berkeley, and Spinoza, a perfidious bunch who ate bread at his table, this giant of wisdom, without even complaining 'et tu Brute', had been thrown into the Tiber and largely forgotten about
- David Bentley Hart’s Post-Christian Pantheism - Public Discourse
Like Spinoza, Hart takes creation to follow of necessity from the divine nature For in God, he says, the distinction between freedom and necessity collapses, and “creation inevitably follows from who [God] is ”
- Quick Hit on Alex OConnors Interview With Ed Feser - Substack
Alex O’Connor (or, the one really good thing to come out of New Atheism) recently interviewed Ed Feser It was great, you should watch it Feser’s argument has generated a lot of my subsequent thinking about God, and I would probably say it was the argument that really pushed me from atheism to the Spinozist pantheism I would defend now
- Edward Feser: Immortal Souls in Religion Liberty
Edward Feser I am a writer and philosopher living in Los Angeles I teach philosophy at Pasadena City College My primary academic research interests are in the philosophy of mind, moral and political philosophy, and philosophy of religion I also write on politics, from a conservative point of view; and on religion, from a traditional Roman
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