Principal Writings on Religion

Author: David Hume
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192838766
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
David Hume is one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in English. His Dialogues ask if a belief in God can be inferred from what is known of the universe, or whether such a belief is even consistent with such knowledge. The Natural History of Religion investigates the origins of belief, and follows its development from polytheism to dogmatic monotheism. Together, these works constitute the most formidable attack upon religious belief ever mounted by a philosopher. This new edition includes Section XI of The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and a letter by Hume in which he discusses Dialogues.

Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Author: Dorothy Coleman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139463799
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 149

Book Description
David Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, first published in 1779, 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. It presents a fictional conversation between a sceptic, an orthodox Christian, and a Newtonian theist concerning evidence for the existence of an intelligent cause of nature based on observable features of the world. This edition presents it together with several of Hume's other, shorter writings about religion, and with brief selections from the work of Pierre Bayle, who influenced both Hume's views on religion and the dialectical style of the Dialogues. The volume is completed by an introduction which sets the Dialogues in its philosophical and historical contexts.

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Author: David Hume
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work written by the Scottish philosopher David Hume. Through dialogue, three fictional characters named Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes debate the nature of God's existence. While all three agree that a god exists, they differ sharply in opinion on God's nature or attributes and how, or if, humankind can come to knowledge of a deity. In the Dialogues, Hume's characters debate a number of arguments for the existence of God, and arguments whose proponents believe through which we may come to know the nature of God. Such topics debated include the argument from design - for which Hume uses a house - and whether there is more suffering or good in the world (Argument from evil)

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Author: David Hume
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0028461800
Category : Natural theology
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work by the Scottish philosopher David Hume. Through dialogue, three philosophers named Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes debate the nature of God's existence. Whether or not these names reference specific philosophers, ancient or otherwise, remains a topic of scholarly dispute. While all three agree that a god exists, they differ sharply in opinion on God's nature or attributes and how, or if, humankind can come to knowledge of a deity.

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, and The Natural History of Religion

Author: David Hume
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780199538324
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
David Hume is the greatest and also one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in the English language. No philosopher is more important for his careful, critical, and deeply perceptive examination of the grounds for belief in divine powers and for his sceptical accounts of the causes and consequences of religious belief, expressed most powerfully in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and The Natural History of Religion. 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. Together they constitute the most formidable attack upon the rationality of religious belief ever mounted by a philosopher. This edition also includes Section XI of The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and a letter concerning the Dialogues, as well as particularly helpful critical apparatus and abstracts of the main texts, enabling the reader to locate or relocate key topics.

David Hume: On Religion

Author: David Hume
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 157

Book Description
This eBook edition of "On Religion" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. David Hume wrote on almost every central question in the philosophy of religion. His writings concerning problems of religion are among the most important and influential contributions on this topic. Hume managed to cover in his works the philosophy, psychology, history, and anthropology of religious thought.

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Second Edition)

Author: David Hume
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 9780872204027
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 158

Book Description
Hume's brilliant and dispassionate essay "Of Miracles" has been added in this expanded edition of his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, which also includes "Of the Immortality of the Soul," "Of Suicide," and Richard Popkin's illuminating Introduction.

The Natural History of Religion

Author: David Hume
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804703338
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
Originally published in London in 1956 by A. and C. Black Ltd.

Hume's 'Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion'

Author: Andrew Pyle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9780826475688
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
This text guides the reader to a clear understanding of the classic of Enlightenment Philosophy and Theology, Hume's Dialogues

Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion

Author: J. P. F. Wynne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107070481
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
Do the gods love you? Cicero gives deep and surprising answers in two philosophical dialogues on traditional Roman religion.