Principal Writings on Religion Including Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and the Natural History of ReligionOxford University Press, 1993 - 218 Seiten David Hume is the greatest and also one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in the English language. His sceptical accounts of the causes and consequences of religious belief are 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 a particularly helpful critical apparatus and abstracts of the main texts. |
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AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN | 11 |
A LETTER CONCERNING THE DIALOGUES | 25 |
An Abstract of the Dialogues | 131 |
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