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   Oct 4, 2005 · Hume goes on to recognize that “enthusiasts” distort God “into a Resemblance with themselves, & by that means render him more comprehensible,” but this, he notes, is a degradation of the idea of God.

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   Jun 26, 2019 · These 9 objections to Hume have caused religious philosophers to hesitate before putting forward the kind of design argument that we find in ‘Cleanthes’ (Hume’s fictional character) and William Paley’s writings.

4. askaphilosopher.org › 2012/03/29 › david-humesDavid Hume’s contribution to the debate on God – Ask a ...

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   Mar 29, 2012 · What are David Hume’s contributions to the debate on God, especially her/ his/ its attributes of first cause? Answer by Tony Fahey. Religion holds that the world operates on cause and effect and that there must therefore be a First Cause, namely God.

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   Oct 4, 2005 · The mistake that Hume particularly warns against, in respect of the issue of God's perfection, is that we cannot begin from the assumption that God is perfect, then assume that his creation is worthy of him, and then argue, on this basis, that we have evidence that God is perfect.

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   • “In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence.
   • “Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.” ― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
   • “Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? ... I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness, and utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty.
   • “The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstructions in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought so far to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.”

7. www.jstor.org › stable › 40024791willing? whence then is evil?"2 The problem of evil so formulated

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   called free-will defense, the defense of God against the charge of moral evil, the evil that human beings bring about through the exercise of the will. It is least successful in its defense of what is usually called natural evil, the evil that human beings endure as a consequence of human conduct or of natural phenomena.

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   What mistakes does Hume make in arguing about God's perfection?

   • The mistake that Hume particularly warns against, in respect of the issue of God's perfection, is that we cannot begin from the assumption that God is perfect, then assume that his creation is worthy of him, and then argue, on this basis, that we have evidence that God is perfect. You find certain phenomena in nature. You seek a cause or author.

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   What does Hume say about religion?

   • The conclusion that Hume draws from all this is that religion generally rests on human weaknesses and vulnerabilities and that reason has little influence over its evolution or stability. While “genuine theism” presents a view of God that is sublime and magnificent, most religion degrades and disfigures the idea of god.

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   Does Hume affirm or deny the idea of the self?

   • First, we have to remember that Hume neither affirms nor denies the idea of the self. It’s just that for Hume, talking about it simply doesn’t make sense. The reason behind Hume’s claim that there is no such thing as the idea of the self can be gleaned from his theory of ideas. So, on Hume’s theory of ideas.

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   Was David Hume an atheist?

   • David Hume is generally believed to be an atheist. His Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, despite its polite and careful ambiguity, was deemed to be powerfully anti-theistic.

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   Why did Hume criticize teleological argument?

   • The problem of evil is one of Hume’s key criticisms of the teleological argument. These 9 objections to Hume have caused religious philosophers to hesitate before putting forward the kind of design argument that we find in ‘Cleanthes’ (Hume’s fictional character) and William Paley’s writings.

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   Why is Hume against the notion of necessary existence important to Descartes?

   • Finally, Hume’s against the notion of necessary existence have obvious relevance also for Descartes’s effort, in Meditations III, to prove that God necessarily exists by way of reasoning from our (innate) idea of God.

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   May 16, 2022 · David Hume’s concept of the self does not only differ from but runs counter to Descartes’s and the other philosophers of the self, such as Plato and Aristotle. This is because, for Hume, there is no such thing as a “self”. Let me briefly explain why for Hume the concept of the self is an illusion.