Thanks for the quick lesson through ancient cosmologies and pantheologies for those who have not studied classics! I will admit the aspect of Feser's review that I disliked most was the mechanical/software analogy as somehow pertinent to how God created human beings. From this analogy, there appears to be two creators (one surely the non-omniscience demiurge) of human beings. This seems to be the most telling weakness in Feser's entire piece--he cannot even take up the Pauline language of grafting in the wild shoot.
I've never been able to figure out how Philosophy of Mind, which is moderate almost to a fault, and Feser's exchanges with Hart could possibly have been written by the same person. Feser can be such a careful thinker at times, but I suppose his loyalties to (his interpretations of) Catholic doctrine and ArisThomism make him take leave of his senses.
(I tend to think The Last Superstition is probably the most authentically Feser-ish of all his works, since it unites his knack for explaining metaphysics with his narrowmindness on most other topics in a very organic way).
Whew! such philosophical complexities compared to Jesus’s instruction to ”pray to your Father who is there unseen” and the description of his own walk with the Father in the Gospels. I think the gift of the Spirit enables us to be with and in the Father as Jesus was as a human. Let us enter the Kingdom of God as little children. There is the thinking about and the analysis which has its place and then there is the simple act of “praying to” and “living and moving in” based on the “access to the Father by one Spirit through him”
Good to see your friend Jordan's book is finally up for preorder! Since I've got a while until it drops, any supplementary reading material you'd recommend to make it comprehensible?
Thanks for the quick lesson through ancient cosmologies and pantheologies for those who have not studied classics! I will admit the aspect of Feser's review that I disliked most was the mechanical/software analogy as somehow pertinent to how God created human beings. From this analogy, there appears to be two creators (one surely the non-omniscience demiurge) of human beings. This seems to be the most telling weakness in Feser's entire piece--he cannot even take up the Pauline language of grafting in the wild shoot.
I've never been able to figure out how Philosophy of Mind, which is moderate almost to a fault, and Feser's exchanges with Hart could possibly have been written by the same person. Feser can be such a careful thinker at times, but I suppose his loyalties to (his interpretations of) Catholic doctrine and ArisThomism make him take leave of his senses.
(I tend to think The Last Superstition is probably the most authentically Feser-ish of all his works, since it unites his knack for explaining metaphysics with his narrowmindness on most other topics in a very organic way).
Whew! such philosophical complexities compared to Jesus’s instruction to ”pray to your Father who is there unseen” and the description of his own walk with the Father in the Gospels. I think the gift of the Spirit enables us to be with and in the Father as Jesus was as a human. Let us enter the Kingdom of God as little children. There is the thinking about and the analysis which has its place and then there is the simple act of “praying to” and “living and moving in” based on the “access to the Father by one Spirit through him”
Good to see your friend Jordan's book is finally up for preorder! Since I've got a while until it drops, any supplementary reading material you'd recommend to make it comprehensible?