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    • Hume, David | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
      • Against the common belief of the time that God’s existence could be proven through a design or causal argument, Hume offered compelling criticisms of standard theistic proofs. He also advanced theories on the origin of popular religious beliefs, grounding such notions in human psychology rather than in rational argument or divine revelation.
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  3. plato.stanford.edu › entries › hume-religionHume on Religion - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    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.

  4. plato.stanford.edu › entries › humeDavid Hume - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Feb 26, 2001 · Demea holds that God is completely unknown and incomprehensible; all we can say is that God is a being without restriction, absolutely infinite and universal. Cleanthes is adamant that the argument from design establishes all of God’s traditional attributes.

  5. academic.oup.com › edited-volume › 40220Hume and Proofs for the Existence of God - Oxford Academic

    This chapter is about Hume’s critiques of the cosmological, ontological, and design arguments for the existence of God, as proposed by Samuel Clarke and other Newtonian theologians.

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

    Mar 29, 2012 · Mercy asked: 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.

  8. iep.utm.edu › hume-relHume, David: Religion - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Hume begins by considering two problems involving God’s justice: first, he addresses the defender of an afterlife who posits its existence as a theodicy, maintaining that there is an afterlife so that the good can be appropriately rewarded and the wicked appropriately punished.

  9. www.cambridge.org › core › elementsThe Problem of God in David Hume - Cambridge University Press ...

    Nov 30, 2023 · The Problem of God in David Hume. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 November 2023. Anders Kraal. Summary. David Hume (1711-1776) is one of the foremost critics of attempts to provide rational arguments in support of traditional Christian theism in Western philosophy.

  10. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsHume's Belief in God | Philosophy | Cambridge Core

    Dec 6, 2017 · Hume does not distinguish between shades of deism but in most cases there was commonality with theism on design and Hume sometimes uses the term theist to embrace moderate deists although there were differences on the matter of a personal and moral God.

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