Sir Anthony Kenny, a prominent philosopher of religion (known for his criticisms of Thomas Aquinas' arguments for God's existence) wrote the following comment about philosopher Edward Feser's book The Last Superstition: A refutation of the New Atheism:
[Feser] has the rare and enviable gift of making philosophical argument compulsively readable... The publisher's blurb tells us that this book has been widely hailed as the strongest argument ever made against the New Atheists. Having read and reviewed quite a number of other similar books, I concur with this judgment
Having read Feser's book, I agree with Kenny's opinion. I'd add that, in order to understand Aquinas' thinking in detail, you should get Feser's book titled Aquinas. It was published after The Last Superstition, and it is even more detailed and scholarly than the TLS.
One aspect that I liked a lot of The Last Superstition is that Feser castigates, sometimes with harsh words, the ignorance, incompetence, irrationality and overall stupidity of the "new atheists".
I'm convinced that people like the "new atheists" are charlatans and they deserve to receive intellectual punishment like the ones that Feser provides in his book.
[Feser] has the rare and enviable gift of making philosophical argument compulsively readable... The publisher's blurb tells us that this book has been widely hailed as the strongest argument ever made against the New Atheists. Having read and reviewed quite a number of other similar books, I concur with this judgment
Having read Feser's book, I agree with Kenny's opinion. I'd add that, in order to understand Aquinas' thinking in detail, you should get Feser's book titled Aquinas. It was published after The Last Superstition, and it is even more detailed and scholarly than the TLS.
One aspect that I liked a lot of The Last Superstition is that Feser castigates, sometimes with harsh words, the ignorance, incompetence, irrationality and overall stupidity of the "new atheists".
I'm convinced that people like the "new atheists" are charlatans and they deserve to receive intellectual punishment like the ones that Feser provides in his book.
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