Paper: Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction to Aristotelian-Thomistic Realism

A monumental work of philosophical recovery written by the Catholic philosopher Dr. Edward Feser. In this masterful treatise, the author systematically defends the absolute validity and unavoidable necessity of Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics to found contemporary empirical science. Feser refutes with relentless logical rigor the modern materialist, scientistic and analytical philosophers who have futilely attempted to reduce all reality to simple aggregates of mechanistic particles in motion. The work restores fundamental concepts such as the real distinction between act and power, the structural hylemorphism of material substance, and immanent teleological causality. By exposing the conceptual bankruptcy of modern naturalism, this text irrefutably demonstrates that true scientific rationality collapses under the weight of skepticism unless it is supported by the robust pillars of perennial scholastic metaphysics.