Some of them, yes, are more demanding than others. Why? Well, it is tempting to say that it’s because philosophy is a hard subject. From the pre-Socratics to the Vienna School and everyone in-between, Leibniz to Plato to Kant, philosophy is a foreign country to all but a hardy few who still visit the shelves in the 100s of the Dewey Decimal System. Philosophy majors at most universities are as rare as a hen’s teeth, and students overall-like the adult population as a whole-remain almost perfectly ignorant of even the rudiments of intellectual history or any branch of philosophical inquiry. Philosophy departments are struggling in the West these days. Insights into the nature of Aristotle’s philosophy confirm Edward Feser’s detailed argument that Aristotle, under the gentle care of later scholastically-minded thinkers, turns out to be right about more things than most of us dare hope.Īristotle’s Revenge: The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science, by Edward Feser (Editiones Scholasticae, 515 pages, 2019)
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