It thereby serves as a refutation both of atheism and of the fideism that gives aid and comfort to atheism. Edward Feser, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of. 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. It thereby serves as a refutation both of atheism and of the fideism that gives aid and comfort to atheism. This work provides as ambitious and complete a defense of traditional natural theology as is currently in print. The chapters include some necessary background on the philosophers credited with formulating the. He dedicates a chapter a piece to each of the five arguments he presents. Finally, it answers at length all of the objections that have been leveled against these proofs. The time, it would seem, is ripe for the sort of book targeted at popular audiences that lays down the argumentation. 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 existence: the Aristotelian, the Neo-Platonic, the Augustinian, the Thomistic, and the Rationalist.
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