Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Author: David Hume
Publisher:
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1779
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

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)

David Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion In Focus

David Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion In Focus
Author: Stanley Tweyman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013-05-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1135977321

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.

Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Author: Dorothy Coleman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2007-04-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139463799

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.

An Analysis of David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

An Analysis of David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Author: John Donaldson
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351352202

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.

Hume's 'Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion'

Hume's 'Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion'
Author: Andrew Pyle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2006-12-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780826475688

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

Reading Hume's Dialogues

Reading Hume's Dialogues
Author: William Lad Sessions
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2002
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780253215345

"... 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?

Principal Writings on Religion Including Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and the Natural History of Religion

Principal Writings on Religion Including Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and the Natural History of Religion
Author: David Hume
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1993
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Presents four works that are central to the 18th-century Scottish philosopher's campaign against organized religion. The three posthumous essays were probably written at the height of his campaign, but he dropped the project on advice from a friend. The spelling, capitalization, and punctuation are modernized and the speakers of each dialogue are identified with bold type. First published in 1980. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $5.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Idealist Alternatives to Materialist Philosophies of Science

Idealist Alternatives to Materialist Philosophies of Science
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2019-12-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004415270

Idealist Alternatives to Materialist Philosophies of Science (ed. Philip MacEwen) makes the case that there are other, and arguably better, ways of understanding science than materialism. Philosophical idealism leads the list of challengers but critical realism and various forms of pluralism are fully articulated as well. To ensure that the incumbent is adequately represented, the volume includes a major defence of materialism/naturalism from Anaxagoras to the present. Contributors include Leslie Armour, John D. Norton, and Fred Wilson with a Foreword by Nicholas Rescher. For anyone interested in whether materialism has a monopoly on science, this volume presents a good case for materialism but a better one for its alternatives.

Hume's Inexplicable Mystery

Hume's Inexplicable Mystery
Author: Keith Yandell
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2010-06-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1439904057

A reexamination of Hume's views on religion.

The Infidel and the Professor

The Infidel and the Professor
Author: Dennis C. Rasmussen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0691192286

Dearest friends -- The cheerful skeptic (1711-1749) -- Encountering Hume (1723-1749) -- A budding friendship (1750-1754) -- The historian and the Kirk (1754-1759) -- Theorizing the moral sentiments (1759) -- Fêted in France (1759-1766) -- Quarrel with a wild philosopher (1766-1767) -- Mortally sick at sea (1767-1775) -- Inquiring into the Wealth of Nations (1776) -- Dialoguing about natural religion (1776) -- A philosopher's death (1776) -- Ten times more abuse (1776-1777) -- Smith's final years in Edinburgh (1777-1790) -- Hume's My Own Life and Smith's Letter from Adam Smith, LL. D. to William Strahan, Esq