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     • In the Natural History, he focuses on how various passions can give rise to common or false religion. It is an innovative work that brings together threads from philosophy, psychology, and history to provide a naturalistic account of how the various world religions came about.
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   Why did Hume write the natural history of religion?

   • In 1757 Hume published “ The Natural History of Religion ”, a work that proposes to identify and explain the origins and evolution of religious belief. This project follows lines of investigation and criticism that had already been laid down by a number of other thinkers, including Lucretius, Hobbes and Spinoza.

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   How many books did Hume write about religion?

   • Hume also wrote two major works entirely dedicated to religion: The Natural History of Religion (Natural History) and the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion (Dialogues), which merit brief discussions of their own.

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   What is Hume's genealogy of religion?

   • Hume’s Genealogy of Religion: Causes and Dynamics of Religious Belief In 1757 Hume published “ The Natural History of Religion ”, a work that proposes to identify and explain the origins and evolution of religious belief.

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   What is Hume's philosophy of religion?

   • Philosophy of Religion Hume wrote forcefully and incisively on almost every central question in the philosophy of religion, contributing to ongoing debates about the reliability of reports of miracles, the immateriality and immortality of the soul, the morality of suicide, and the natural history of religion, among others.

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   What was Hume's greatest achievement in the philosophy of religion?

   • Hume’s greatest achievement in the philosophy of religion is the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, which is generally regarded as one of the most important and influential contributions to this area of philosophy.

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   Why did Hume write the dialogues?

   • Hume wrote the Dialogues roughly in tandem with another work, the Natural History. In its introduction, Hume posits that there are two types of inquiry to be made into religion: its foundations in reason and its origin in human nature. While the Dialogues investigates the former, the explicit task of the Natural History is to explore the latter.

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3. plato.stanford.edu › entries › hume-religionHume on Religion - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Oct 4, 2005 · In 1757 Hume published “The Natural History of Religion”, a work that proposes to identify and explain the origins and evolution of religious belief. This project follows lines of investigation and criticism that had already been laid down by a number of other thinkers, including Lucretius, Hobbes and Spinoza.

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4. www.jstor.org › stable › 4543223UNDERSTANDING HUME'S NATURAL HISTORY OF RELIGION

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   Hume's 'Natural History of Religion' offers a naturalized account of the causes of religious thought, an investigation into its 'origins' rather than its foundation in reason'. Hume thinks that if we

5. link.springer.com › chapter › 10David Hume’s “Natural History of Religion” (1757)

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   Hume’s “Natural History of Religion,” published as one of the Four Dissertations (1757), was the most significant contribution to the Scottish Enlightenment’s study of religion, a constant provocation to his contemporaries and a text of enduring importance.

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

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   Hume also wrote two major works entirely dedicated to religion: The Natural History of Religion (Natural History) and the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion (Dialogues), which merit brief discussions of their own.

8. files.libertyfund.org › files › 340DAVID HUME, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RELIGION (1757) - Liberty Fund

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   “The Natural History of Religion” was published by Hume at the beginning of 1757, after his reputation had been established by his earlier “Essays” and the first two volumes of his “History of England”.

9. brill.com › previewpdf › displayNatural History of religioN - Brill

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   Hume included a treatise he called the Natural History of religion, which took as its goal the investigation of religion’s ‘origin in human nature’.7 the Natural History of religion begins with the assertion that ‘poly-theism and idolatry was, and necessarily must have been, the first and

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

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    Feb 26, 2001 · Hume’s greatest achievement in the philosophy of religion is the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, which is generally regarded as one of the most important and influential contributions to this area of philosophy.