Edward Feser

6 days ago | catholicworldreport.com | Edward Feser |Joanna Bogle

Opinion: The U.S. should stay out of Israel’s war with IranThere are two criteria of just war theory that President Trump is violating, at least if we take his words at face value. (Image: sina drakhshani / Unsplash.com)Let me say at the outset that I agree with the view that it would be bad for the Iranian regime to acquire a nuclear weapon. How close it is to actually acquiring one, I do not know.

1 week ago | catholicworldreport.com | Edward Feser |Nicholas Zachariadis

(Image: sina drakhshani / Unsplash.com)Let me say at the outset that I agree with the view that it would be bad for the Iranian regime to acquire a nuclear weapon. How close it is to actually acquiring one, I do not know. I do know that the claim that such acquisition is imminent has been made for decades now, and yet it has still not happened. In any event, it is Israel rather than the U.S. that would be threatened by such acquisition, and Israel has proven quite capable of taking care of itself.

1 week ago | edwardfeser.blogspot.com | Edward Feser

for decades now,and yet it has still not happened. Inany event, it is Israel rather than the U.S. that would be threatened by suchacquisition, and Israel has proven quite capable of taking care of itself. There is no need for the U.S. to enter thewar, and it is in neither the U.S.’s interests nor the interests of the rest ofthe region for it to do so.

2 weeks ago | postliberalorder.com | Edward Feser

As riots afflict Los Angeles and threaten to spread to other cities, progressives fret over whether the Trump administration is overreacting by deploying the National Guard and Marines. They are wrong, and the administration is in the right. Riots are not like criminal activity of the kind best dealt with patiently and subtly. Of their nature they require an immediate and severe response.

3 weeks ago | edwardfeser.blogspot.com | Edward Feser

Phenomenologyof Spirit, Hegel critiques these pseudosciences. Since they are now widely acknowledged to bepseudosciences, it might seem that Hegel’s critique can be of historicalinterest only. But as the late AlasdairMacIntyre pointed out in his essay “Hegel: On Faces and Skulls,” Hegel’s mainpoints can be applied to a critique of today’s fashionable attempts to predictpsychological traits and human actions from physiological and genetictraits.