Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, and Metaphysics

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Feser talks about this in the 5th chapter, "Descent of the Modernists". He pushes that our immorality is because we abandoned Aristotelian metaphysics, and the morality it implies. He also talks about how science never refuted Aristotle's metaphysics (although disproving his science, of course), and that the main reason modern philosopher's began leaving them is because "we'll end up spending more time contemplating first principles and the state of our souls and less time thinking up new gadgets." The push for science, and the desire to better this material life, spawned modernists. He also blames Martin Luther and John Calvin for pushing that wealth is good/poverty is bad, and supporting individual conscience over Aristotelian Scholasticism.

That's ironic. Because Aristotle's explanation of a good life is "the happy person is one who expresses complete virtue in his activities, with an adequate supply of external goods, not just for any time but for a complete life." Clearly, he is of the opinion that wealth is good/poverty is bad - if not as a primary but as logical consequence.

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Daniel C. Dennett is one of the "new atheists". To claim he is "stupid ... in philosophy" is absurd.

And the claim that naturalism makes reason and morality impossible is ignorant.

I like it.

Simple. Elegant. And doesn't leave much room for counter-argument.