Immortal Souls provides as ambitious and complete a defense of Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophical anthropology as is currently in print. Among the many topics covered are the reality and unity of the self, the immateriality of the intellect, the freedom of the will, the immortality of the soul, the critique of artificial intelligence, and the refutation of both Cartesian and materialist conceptions of human nature. Along the way, the main rival positions in contemporary philosophy and science are thoroughly engaged with and rebutted.
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Immortal Souls now available
After some frustrating
delays in distribution, my book Immortal
Souls: A Treatise on Human Nature is now in stock and available from Amazon and Barnes
and Noble. Here are the back cover
copy, endorsements, and table of contents:
Friday, October 4, 2024
Abortion and subsidiarity
Ever since
the Dobbs decision permitted states
to set their own abortion policies, Donald Trump has taken the position that
the issue should stay at the state level.
Dobbs itself doesn’t require
this, and leaves open the possibility of a federal ban. But Trump nevertheless declines to pursue
such a ban, and indeed is opposed to such a ban. Now, a federal ban is in any event currently
politically unrealistic, and will likely remain so for the foreseeable
future. But some take the view that,
even if abortion amounts to murder, it would be wrong to impose a federal ban
even if it were politically possible
to do so. They make their case on
federalist grounds, arguing that a national abortion ban would usurp power that
rightly belongs to the states. Some
argue on natural law grounds, specifically, suggesting that the principle of
subsidiarity would rule out a federal ban.
If this were true, then it would follow that even a pro-life Catholic
should oppose a federal abortion ban.
What should we think of this argument?
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Vinco on Feser in Philosophische Rundschau
German-speaking
readers might be interested in Roberto Vinco’s article “Neo-Scholastic
Metaphysics in the 21st Century: An Examination of the Perspective of Edward
Feser,” in the latest issue of the journal Philosophische
Rundschau.
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