Over at Thomistica, Professor John F.X. Knasas has kindly responded to my rejoinder to his reply to my review of his book. Here is the sequence for those interested:
- My essay-length review of Knasas, Thomistic Existentialism & Cosmological Reasoning (July 2020)
- Knasas’s response to my review, “Aquinas’ Metaphysics and Aristotle’s Arguments for the Eternity of the World” (June 2024)
- My first response to Knasas, “Natural Philosophy Does Not Lead to Heresy: A Reply to John F. X. Knasas” (November 2024)
- Knasas’s response to my first response, “Has Brungardt Escaped the Eternity of the World?: Further Thoughts” (March 2025)
- My second response to Knasas, “Have I Alone Escaped to Tell You? Another Response to Knasas”
Our debate connects to the overarching character of natural philosophical versus metaphysical reasoning, all by focusing on why Aristotle’s argument from time for the eternity of motion fails.
John G. Brungardt 