An Analysis Of David Hume S Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Author : John Donaldson,Ian Jackson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 97 pages
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Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
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An Analysis of David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by John Donaldson,Ian Jackson Pdf

David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical classic that displays a powerful mastery of the critical thinking skills of reasoning and evaluation. Hume’s subject, the question of the existence and possible nature of God, was, and still is, a persistent topic of philosophical and theological debate. What makes Hume’s text a classic of reasoning, though, is less what he says, than how he says it. As he noted in his preface to the book, the question of ‘natural religion’ was unanswerable: so ‘obscure and uncertain’ that ‘human reason can reach no fixed determination with regard to it.’ Hume chose, as a result, to cast his thoughts on the topic in the form of a dialogue – allowing different points of view to be reasoned out, evaluated and answered by different characters. Considering and judging different or opposing points of view, as Hume’s characters do, is an important part of reasoning, and is vital to building strong persuasive arguments. Even if, as Hume suggests, there can be no final answer to what a god might be like, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion shows high-level reasoning and evaluation at their best.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
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Release : 1779
Category : Religion
ISBN : GENT:900000075073

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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume Pdf

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)

Author : Stanley Tweyman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135977320

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David Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion In Focus by Stanley Tweyman Pdf

Based on the original handwritten manuscript, this book provides a new, accurate edition of Hume’s important work, faithful to his original text, marginal notes, and changes. Stanley Tweyman’s comprehensive introduction gives an interpretation of the Dialogues as a whole, as well as close analysis of each of the work’s twelve parts. Hume’s views on evil are discussed in four previously published articles, and the volume concludes with an extensive bibliography. Originally published in 1991.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 94 pages
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Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788726627459

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Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume Pdf

David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion had not yet been published when he died in 1776. Even though the manuscript was mostly written during the 1750s, it did not appear until 1779. The subject itself was too delicate and controversial, and Hume’s dialectical examination of religious knowledge was especially provocative. What should we teach young people about religion? The characters Demea, Cleanthes, and Philo passionately present and defend three sharply different answers to that question. Demea opens the dialogue with a position derived from René Descartes and Father Malebranche — God’s nature is a mystery, but God’s existence can be proved logically. Cleanthes attacks that view, both because it leads to mysticism and because it attempts the impossible task of trying to establish existence on the basis of pure reason, without appeal to sense experience. As an alternative, he offers a proof of both God’s existence and God’s nature based on the same kind of scientific reasoning established by Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton. Taking a skeptical approach, Philo presents a series of arguments that question any attempt to use reason as a basis for religious faith. He suggests that human beings might be better off without religion. The dialogue ends without agreement among the characters, justifying Hume’s choice of dialogue as the literary style for this topic. Born in Scotland, Hume challenges much of the philosophy that prevailed in Europe and England in the 17th and 18th century. He was especially critical of the rationalism developed by René Descartes and his followers. Although he wrote a number of influential essays (including "A Treatise of Human Nature" and "Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding"), his dialogues are especially well suited for the topic of religion. As his character Pamphilus says: "Any philosophical question that is so obscure and uncertain that human reason can reach no agreement about it, if it is treated at all, seems to lead us naturally to the style of dialogue."

Author : David Mills Daniel
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
Page : 80 pages
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Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0334040256

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Briefly by David Mills Daniel Pdf

Briefly: Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a summary of David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, which is designed to assist university and school-leaving students in acquiring knowledge and understanding of this key text in the philosophy of religion. This book closely adheres to Hume's text, enabling the reader to follow each development in the argument as it occurs. An introductory chapter provides a brief introduction to David Hume and the period in which he wrote and why the Dialogues are so significant. Following the detailed summary is a short overview of the Dialogues to aid memory. With suggestions for further reading and an extensive glossary of terms found in the Dialogues, this book is a thorough introduction for those starting their study of David Hume's work.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0192838768

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Principal Writings on Religion by David Hume Pdf

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.

Author : David Hume,Richard H. Popkin
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998-03-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0872204022

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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Second Edition) by David Hume,Richard H. Popkin Pdf

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.

Author : Dorothy Coleman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 149 pages
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Release : 2007-04-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139463799

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Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by Dorothy Coleman Pdf

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.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1420961993

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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume Pdf

First published posthumously in 1779, "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion" is Scottish philosopher David Hume's classic work of religious philosophy. This detailed and exhaustive examination of the nature and existence of God was begun by Hume in 1750, but not completed until shortly before his death in 1776. Hume was an important and influential English Empiricist, along with other English philosophers such as Francis Bacon, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes. Empiricism rests upon the idea that all rational belief must be supported by experiential evidence. It is within the scope of this philosophy that Hume examines the nature of God in this work and asks the question as to whether or not man's belief in God can be supported by experience or evidence. This exposition takes place in the guise of a dialogue between three characters, philosophers Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes, who each take different points of view on the subject. Arguments such as intelligent design, the existence of evil as evidence that there is no God, and valuing faith over reason are debated by the three philosophers. "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion" is a fascinating examination of faith from a philosophical perspective and a must read for any student of philosophy or religion. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798614294106

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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Illustrated by David Hume Pdf

A classic work of religious philosophy, "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion" is David Hume's examination of the nature of God. David Hume's philosophy, empiricism, rests upon the idea that all rational belief must be supported by experiential evidence. It is within the scope of this philosophy that Hume examines the nature of God and asks the question as to whether or not man's belief in God can be supported by experience. This exposition takes place in the guise of a dialogue between three characters who each take different points of view on the subject. "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion" is an interesting examination of faith from a philosophical perspective and a must read for any student of philosophy or religion.

Author : S. Tweyman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789400943414

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Scepticism and Belief in Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by S. Tweyman Pdf

In the pages that follow, an attempt is made to examine those sections of the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion which deal with the Argument from Design - the argument which purports to prove that certain observed similarities between the design of the world and machines of human contrivance countenance reasoning by analogy to the conclusion that the cause of the design of the world resembles human intelligence. The sections which deal with the Argument from Design, and with which I am therefore concerned, are Parts I through VIII and Part XII. I argue that a clue to Hume's discussion of the Argument from Design is to be found in Section XII of the first Enquiry, in which Hume presents his most thorough analysis of philosophic dogmatism and scepticism. The Dialogues, as will be shown, follows precisely Hume's recommendations in this Section for bringing the dogmatist to the position which Hume himself endorses - 'mitigated scepticism. ' It is, then, the position of the mitigated sceptic which is elaborated in Part XII of the Dialogues. The belief in an intelligent designer of the world is shown to be akin to certain other beliefs discussed by Hume - causality, physical objects, a continuing self - which are usually referred to in the literature as 'natural beliefs. ' The mitigated sceptic's defense of the unknowability of the divine nature is seen to be in accordance with Hume's view that whatever is believed naturally cannot be known or understood.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1407627139

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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume Pdf

Author : William Lad Sessions
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 025321534X

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Reading Hume's Dialogues by William Lad Sessions Pdf

"... establishes the literary and philosophical greatness of the Dialogues in ways that even its warmest admirers have been unable to do before." --Terence Penelhum In this lively reading of David Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, William Lad Sessions reveals a complex internal hermeneutic that gives new form, structure, and meaning to the work. Linking situations, character, style, and action to the philosophical concepts presented, Sessions finds meaning contained in the work itself and calls attention to the internal connections between plot, character, rhetoric, and philosophy. The result avoids the main preoccupation of previous commentaries, namely, the attempt to establish which of the main characters speaks for Hume. Concentrating on previously unexplored questions of piety and theology, Sessions asks important questions in the philosophy of religion today--what is the nature of true religion, what is the relationship between theology and piety, and how should we actively engage with God?

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798569229246

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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Illustrates by David Hume Pdf

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work by the Scottish philosopher David Hume, first published in 1779. 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.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).

Author : John Donaldson,Ian Jackson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351352208

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Dialogue Concerning Natural Religion by John Donaldson,Ian Jackson Pdf

David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical classic that displays a powerful mastery of the critical thinking skills of reasoning and evaluation. Hume’s subject, the question of the existence and possible nature of God, was, and still is, a persistent topic of philosophical and theological debate. What makes Hume’s text a classic of reasoning, though, is less what he says, than how he says it. As he noted in his preface to the book, the question of ‘natural religion’ was unanswerable: so ‘obscure and uncertain’ that ‘human reason can reach no fixed determination with regard to it.’ Hume chose, as a result, to cast his thoughts on the topic in the form of a dialogue – allowing different points of view to be reasoned out, evaluated and answered by different characters. Considering and judging different or opposing points of view, as Hume’s characters do, is an important part of reasoning, and is vital to building strong persuasive arguments. Even if, as Hume suggests, there can be no final answer to what a god might be like, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion shows high-level reasoning and evaluation at their best.