#48 Edward Feser - Aristotle's Argument for God
Within Reason
Alex J O'Connor
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🗓️ 16 December 2023
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Edward Feser is an American Catholic philosopher, and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in California.
He is the author of "Five Proofs of the Existence of God", and in this episode speaks about one of these: the Aristotelean argument from motion.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Within Reason. My name is Alex O'Connor. Ed Fazer is an associate professor of philosophy at Pasadena City College in California. |
| 0:09.0 | He's the author of Five Proofs of the Existence of God, and he joins me today to discuss one of them, the argument |
| 0:15.3 | from motion. This is an argument that was discussed by Ben Shapiro in his video, The Atheism |
| 0:20.3 | Delusion, something I responded to about a year ago on my YouTube channel, and since |
| 0:25.2 | Ben's video relied heavily for that portion on Ed Fazer's work, I thought it would be interesting |
| 0:29.8 | to sit down with Dr. Fazer to discuss that argument in more detail. With that said, I hope |
| 0:34.5 | that you enjoy the following conversation with Ed Fazer. |
| 0:39.7 | Ed Fazer, thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. |
| 0:44.0 | Appreciate the invitation. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm really excited to talk to you in part because about a year ago I made a video responding to Ben Shapiro |
| 0:52.0 | who put out a video called The Atheist Illusion, I think, on the Daily |
| 0:56.0 | Wire and it was a sort of 10 minute video going over some of his reasons for belief in God and one of the most important parts of that video was his presentation of the argument from change which he attributed to you well I mean didn't attribute the argument to you but he referenced the fact that you laid it out in your book five proofs of the existence of God. |
| 1:19.4 | And so although this video that I made in response was a response to Ben Shapiro in many ways at least that |
| 1:25.2 | section was a response to you and to your arguments and so I'm looking forward to sitting down |
| 1:30.1 | with you. My audience my listeners will probably have more familiar down with arguments for the |
| 1:33.7 | probably have more familiarity than the average person |
| 1:36.6 | with arguments for the existence of God. |
| 1:38.4 | But I think that something like the argument from motion |
| 1:41.0 | isn't discussed quite as much in the sort of apologetics and debate space and so I |
| 1:46.2 | wondered if we could take a little bit of time to lay out that argument sure and |
| 1:50.2 | see see how we do. Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:55.0 | So the argument is one that goes back to Aristotle, really goes back even to Plato and the |
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