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Swindal on Neo-Scholastic Essays
In the latest issue of the International Philosophical Quarterly, Prof. James Swindal kindly reviews my book Neo-Scholastic Essays. From the review:Feser… is thoroughly steeped both in analytic...
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Can schadenfreude be virtuous?
Bill Vallicella asks: Is there a righteous form of schadenfreude? The Angelic Doctor appears to answer in the affirmative. Speaking of the knowledge that the blessed in heaven have of the damned,...
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The pre-existence of the soul
Our visit to hell hasn’t ended. (How could it?) More on the subject of damnation in a forthcoming follow-up post. But first, a brief look at another topic which, it seems to me, is illuminated by...
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Does God damn you?
Modern defenders of the doctrine of eternal punishment often argue that those who are damned essentially damn themselves. As I indicated in a recent post on hell, from a Thomistic point of view that...
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Mexican link off
Argentine standoff: Pope Francis and the four cardinals, as reported by National Catholic Register and Catholic Herald. Commentary from First Things and Bishop Athanasius Schneider.Richard Dawkins...
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Why not annihilation?
Another post on hell? Will this series never end? Never fear, dear reader. As Elaine Benes would say, it only feelslike an eternity. We’ll get on to another topic before long.Hell itself never...
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Hiroshima, mon Amoris?
Pope Francis’s Amoris Laetitia has been something of a bombshell. And its critics worry that it will have something like a bombshell’s effect on the Church. Most readers are no doubt aware of the...
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Denial flows into the Tiber
Pope Honorius I occupied the chair of Peter from 625-638. As the 1910 Catholic Encyclopedia notes in its article on Honorius, his chief claim to fame is that “he was condemned as a heretic by the...
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How Pope Benedict XVI dealt with disagreement
In 1988, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) consecrated four bishops against the express orders of Pope John Paul II. The Vatican declared that the archbishop and the new...
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Besong on Scholastic Metaphysics
In the December issue of New Oxford Review, philosopher Brian Besong kindly reviews my book Scholastic Metaphysics. From the review:Philosopher Edward Feser has earned significant fanfare in recent...
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Auld links syne
Get your geek on. Blade Runner 2049will be out in 2017. So will Iron Fist, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Alien: Covenant, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Defenders, and Thor: Ragnarok. Season 2 of The...
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COMING SOON: By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed
I am pleased to announce the forthcoming publication by Ignatius Press of By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of the Death Penalty, which I have co-authored with Prof. Joseph Bessette of...
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A Hartless God?
Lest the impatient reader start to think of this as the blog from hell, what follows will be – well, for a while, anyway – my last post on that subject. Recall that in earlier posts I set out a...
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Addison’s disease
Addison Hodges Hart is a Christian author, former Catholic priest, and the brother of theologian David Bentley Hart. (From here on out I’ll refer to David and Addison by their first names, simply for...
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More on Amoris
Invoking Amoris Laetitia, the bishops of Malta have decreed that adulterers who feel “at peace with God” and find it “humanly impossible” to refrain from sex may receive absolution and go to communion....
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Forthcoming speaking engagements
The Thomistic Institute and St. Thomas Aquinas Parish at the University of Virginia are co-sponsoring a day of lectures on natural theology on Saturday, January 28. The speakers are Edward Feser and...
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Revisiting Ross on the immateriality of thought
The late James Ross put forward a powerful argument for the immateriality of the intellect. I developed and defended this argument in my essay “Kripke, Ross, and the Immaterial Aspects of...
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Immaterial thought and embodied cognition
In a combox remark on my recent post about James Ross’s argument for the immateriality of thought, reader Red raises an important set of issues:Given embodied cognition, aren't these types of arguments...
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Science, computers, and Aristotle
If you think that the brain, or the genome, or the universe as a whole is a kind of computer, then you are really an Aristotelian whether you realize it or not. For information, algorithms, software,...
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Foundations of sexual morality
The foundations of traditional sexual morality, like the foundations of all morality, are to be found in classical natural law theory. I set out the basic lines of argument in my essay “In Defense of...
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