Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Hume on ReligionDavid Hume was the most important British philosopher of the eighteenth century. His Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a classic text in the philosophy of religion. |
Contents
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2 An Overview of the Dialogues | 23 |
3 The Scope and Legitimacy of Natural Religion Prologue and Dialogues Part I | 37 |
4 Cleanthes First Design Argument Dialogues Part II | 53 |
The Irregular Argument Dialogues Part III | 77 |
6 A Mind Like the Human Dialogues Parts IV and V | 95 |
7 Naturalism and Scepticism Dialogues Parts VI VII and VIII | 119 |
Common terms and phrases
agnosticism analogy answer anthropomorphism Author of nature basic briefly causation Cleanthes concept conclusion conjecture cosmological argument criticism deism deity Demea Demea’s argument design argument design hypothesis design in nature Dialogues difficulty distinction divine emphasis evidence evidentialist existence experience explanation facts of evil final find finite first place fit Furthermore Gaskin Hermippus Hume’s Hume’s philosophy idea infinite influence instance intelligence justified limited theism logical man-made things matter means meanswnd order mind moral natural belief natural order natural religion naturalistic hypothesis objection ofthe order in nature perhaps Philo Philo’s concession philosophical philosophy of religion polytheism position possible posteriori principle problem of evil Pyrrhonism Pyrrhonistic scepticism question reason reflects religious belief resemblance response seems sense significant similar speaks for Hume specifically standard theism sufficient suggestion supernaturalistic suppose surely theistic theory thought-experiment tion true religion ultimate universe words