{"id":55134,"date":"2014-10-10T00:53:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T07:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=55134"},"modified":"2014-12-28T20:44:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T03:44:22","slug":"hey-berkeley-dr-ed-feser-is-coming-your-way-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2014\/10\/hey-berkeley-dr-ed-feser-is-coming-your-way-next-month.html","title":{"rendered":"Hey Berkeley!  Dr. Ed Feser is coming your way next month!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/edwardfeser.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dr. Ed Feser <\/a>will join DSPT faculty members Michael Dodds, OP and Anselm Ramelow, OP in a symposium on \u201cGod, Reason and Reality\u201d, a book edited by Anselm Ramelow, OP. The event will take place at 2301 Vine Street, Berkeley on Saturday, November 8 at 10:00am.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go\u00a0to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dspt.edu\/site\/default.aspx?PageType=3&amp;ModuleInstanceID=140&amp;ViewID=7b97f7ed-8e5e-4120-848f-a8b4987d588f&amp;RenderLoc=0&amp;FlexDataID=888&amp;PageID=240\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">dspt.edu\/godreasonreality<\/a>\u00a0for more info.<\/p>\n<p>Feser is a Thomist with his head screwed on straight.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also an ex-atheist who has done a nice job refuting The Usual Stuff from atheism:<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=marksheacom-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1587314525&amp;asins=1587314525&amp;linkId=ZZSOFHXNGBODK5YD&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s always a pity to me that atheists expend *all* of their intellectual firepower trying to shout down what are essentially the throat clearings of St. Thomas at the very beginning of the Summa and never get past that to the really interesting stuff.  It\u2019s like a legion of literary critics spending all their lives discussing Hamlet and never getting past<\/p>\n<p>ACT I<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SCENE I. Elsinore. A platform before the castle.<\/p>\n<p>FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO<br>\nBERNARDO<br>\nWho\u2019s there?<br>\nFRANCISCO<br>\nNay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself.<br>\nBERNARDO<br>\nLong live the king!<br>\nFRANCISCO<br>\nBernardo?<br>\nBERNARDO<br>\nHe.<br>\nFRANCISCO<br>\nYou come most carefully upon your hour.<br>\nBERNARDO<br>\n\u2018Tis now struck twelve; get thee to bed, Francisco.<br>\nFRANCISCO<br>\nFor this relief much thanks: \u2019tis bitter cold,<br>\nAnd I am sick at heart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is considerably more to the play than that.  And there are much more interesting things to say about God beyond \u201cHe exists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Teachers like Feser can help, as it were, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>he that leaves<br>\nA shallow plash to plunge him in the deep<br>\nAnd with satiety seeks to quench his thirst.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=marksheacom-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1851686908&amp;asins=1851686908&amp;linkId=IYVC7IKCRG2TOFVI&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology writes: Dr. Ed Feser will join DSPT faculty members Michael Dodds, OP and Anselm Ramelow, OP in a symposium on \u201cGod, Reason and Reality\u201d, a book edited by Anselm Ramelow, OP. The event will take place at 2301 Vine Street, Berkeley on Saturday, November 8 at 10:00am. Go\u00a0to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[166,22],"class_list":["post-55134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dominican-stuff","tag-psa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hey Berkeley! 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