The Last Superstition
Author | : Edward Feser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2008 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:49015003313518 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Last Superstition written by Edward Feser and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But as Edward Feser shows in The Last Superstition , there is not , and never has been, any war between science and religion at all. There has instead been a conflict between two entirely philosophical worldviews: the classical "teleological vision" of Plato, Artistotle, Augustine, and Aquinas, on which purpose or goal-directedness is as inherent a feature of the material world as mass or electric charge; and the modern "mechanical" vision of Descartees, Hobbes, Locke, and Hume, according to which physical reality is comprised of nothing more than purposeless, meaningless particles in motion.