Edward Feser Quotes

• Preaching Christianity to skeptics without first setting out the praeambula fidei [preambles of faith], and then complaining when they don’t accept it, is like yelling in English at someone who only speaks Chinese, and then dismissing him as a fool when he doesn’t understand you. In both cases, while there is certainly a fool in the picture, it isn’t the listener.

  Edward Feser

  Yelling, Chinese, Fool

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• Atheists tend to read only each other’s books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting.

  Edward Feser

  Religious, Atheist, Book

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• For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.

  Edward Feser

  Mind, Doe, Reason

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• How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldn’t want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders of modern philosophy did, was the single greatest mistake ever made in the entire history of Western thought.

  Edward Feser

  Philosophy, Mistake, Want

  Edward Feser (2008). “The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism”, St Augustine PressInc

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• Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads an attempt at the latter as if it were the former. That is not to say that Aquinas might not be mistaken at some point in the argument – though obviously I don’t think he is – but if you’re going to show that he is, you first need to understand what kind of argument he is giving, and thus what kind of mistake he’d be making if he’s made one at all.

  Edward Feser

  Mistake, Thinking, Differences

  Edward Feser (2008). “The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism”, St Augustine PressInc

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