David Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion In Focus

David Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion In Focus
Title David Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion In Focus PDF eBook
Author Stanley Tweyman
Publisher Routledge
Pages 321
Release 2013-05-02
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1135977321

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Based on the original handwritten manuscript, this book provides a new, accurate edition of Hume’s important work, faithful to his original text, marginal notes, and changes. Stanley Tweyman’s comprehensive introduction gives an interpretation of the Dialogues as a whole, as well as close analysis of each of the work’s twelve parts. Hume’s views on evil are discussed in four previously published articles, and the volume concludes with an extensive bibliography. Originally published in 1991.

David Hume Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion in Focus

David Hume Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion in Focus
Title David Hume Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion in Focus PDF eBook
Author David Hume
Publisher
Pages 226
Release 1991
Genre Natural theology
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion in Focus

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion in Focus
Title Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion in Focus PDF eBook
Author David Hume
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 226
Release 1991
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780415020145

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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion in Focus

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion in Focus
Title Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion in Focus PDF eBook
Author Stanley Tweyman
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Pages 226
Release 1991
Genre Natural theology
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Title Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion PDF eBook
Author David Hume
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Pages 274
Release 1779
Genre Religion
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work written by the Scottish philosopher David Hume. Through dialogue, three fictional characters named Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes debate the nature of God's existence. While all three agree that a god exists, they differ sharply in opinion on God's nature or attributes and how, or if, humankind can come to knowledge of a deity. In the Dialogues, Hume's characters debate a number of arguments for the existence of God, and arguments whose proponents believe through which we may come to know the nature of God. Such topics debated include the argument from design - for which Hume uses a house - and whether there is more suffering or good in the world (Argument from evil)

Dialogues concerning natural religion, by david hume

Dialogues concerning natural religion, by david hume
Title Dialogues concerning natural religion, by david hume PDF eBook
Author David Hume
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Release 1914
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Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Title Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion PDF eBook
Author David Hume
Publisher Lindhardt og Ringhof
Pages 94
Release 2020-07-30
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 8726627450

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David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion had not yet been published when he died in 1776. Even though the manuscript was mostly written during the 1750s, it did not appear until 1779. The subject itself was too delicate and controversial, and Hume’s dialectical examination of religious knowledge was especially provocative. What should we teach young people about religion? The characters Demea, Cleanthes, and Philo passionately present and defend three sharply different answers to that question. Demea opens the dialogue with a position derived from René Descartes and Father Malebranche — God’s nature is a mystery, but God’s existence can be proved logically. Cleanthes attacks that view, both because it leads to mysticism and because it attempts the impossible task of trying to establish existence on the basis of pure reason, without appeal to sense experience. As an alternative, he offers a proof of both God’s existence and God’s nature based on the same kind of scientific reasoning established by Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton. Taking a skeptical approach, Philo presents a series of arguments that question any attempt to use reason as a basis for religious faith. He suggests that human beings might be better off without religion. The dialogue ends without agreement among the characters, justifying Hume’s choice of dialogue as the literary style for this topic. Born in Scotland, Hume challenges much of the philosophy that prevailed in Europe and England in the 17th and 18th century. He was especially critical of the rationalism developed by René Descartes and his followers. Although he wrote a number of influential essays (including "A Treatise of Human Nature" and "Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding"), his dialogues are especially well suited for the topic of religion. As his character Pamphilus says: "Any philosophical question that is so obscure and uncertain that human reason can reach no agreement about it, if it is treated at all, seems to lead us naturally to the style of dialogue."