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Oct 4, 2005 · David Hume’s various writings concerning problems of religion are among the most important and influential contributions on this topic. In these writings Hume advances a systematic, sceptical critique of the philosophical foundations of various theological systems.
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Dialogues concerning Natural Religion David Hume Part 1 young. By continual teaching (and also by example, I hope), I imprint deeply on their young minds a habitual reverence for all the principles of religion. While they pass through every other branch of knowledge, I comment on the uncertainty of each branch, on the eternal controversies of ...
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David Hume Natural History of Religion Dedication [John Home (sometimes spelled ‘Hume’) was a distant relative of David Hume’s, and a Presbyterian minister. His Douglas was vastly successful in Scotland and England, his other plays much less so.] To the Reverend John Home, author of Douglas, a Tragedy
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David Hume’s Dialogues concerning Natural Religion ( ) is one of the most influential works in the philosophy of religion and the most artful instance of philosophical dialogue since the dialogues of Plato.
philosophical issues. I shall begin by summarizing Hume's philos-ophy of religion in terms of six major theses. Each of these theses will then be discussed in detail, and by exemplifying them in all of Hume's writings from the Treatise to the Dialogues, I hope to show that Hume always maintained the same consistent position. Finally,
David Hume (1711–76) was one of the great philosophers (arguably the greatest) of that prodigiously fruitful era known as the early modern period. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, scholastic Aristotelianism, a world-view which had dominated thought for many hundreds of years, finally began to be overshadowed by a recogniz-
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Jun 29, 2020 · The Dialogues ask if belief in God can be inferred from the nature of the universe or whether it is even consistent with what we know about the universe. The Natural History of Religion investigates the origins of belief, and follows its development from harmless polytheism to dogmatic monotheism.
