five proofs of the existence of god by edward feser

He is also the author of many academic articles. in philosophy and religious studies from the California State University at Fullerton.Ĭalled by National Review “one of the best contemporary writers on philosophy,” Feser is the author of On Nozick, Philosophy of Mind, Locke, The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism, and Aquinas, and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hayek and Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics. in religion from the Claremont Graduate School, and a B.A. in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara, an M.A. He has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. It thereby serves as a refutation both of atheism and of the fideism that gives aid and comfort to atheism.Įdward Feser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California. Its aim is to vindicate the view of the greatest philosophers of the past- thinkers like Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, Leibniz, and many others- that the existence of God can be established with certainty by way of purely rational arguments. This work provides as ambitious and complete a defense of traditional natural theology as is currently in print. Finally, it answers at length all of the objections that have been leveled against these proofs. It also offers a thorough treatment of each of the key divine attributes-unity, simplicity, eternity, omnipotence, omniscience, perfect goodness, and so forth-showing that they must be possessed by the God whose existence is demonstrated by the proofs. This book provides a detailed, updated exposition and defense of five of the historically most important (but in recent years largely neglected) philosophical proofs of God’s the Aristotelian, the Neo-Platonic, the Augustinian, the Thomistic, and the Rationalist.

Five proofs of the existence of god by edward feser