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David Hume. 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 ...
Dialogues concerning Natural Religion David Hume Pamphilus to Hermippus Letter from Pamphilus to Hermippus It has been remarked that though the ancient philosophers mostly taught through dialogues, the dialogue form hasn’t been much used in recent times, and has seldom succeeded when people have tried it. ·There is a good reason for this·.
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It has been remarked, my HERMIPPUS, that though the ancient philosophersconveyed most of their instruction in the form of dialogue, this methodof composition has been little practised in later ages, and has seldomsucceeded in the hands of those who have attempted it. Accurate andregular argument, indeed, such as is now expected of philosophicalinqu...
After I joined the company, whom I found sitting in CLEANTHES's library,DEMEA paid CLEANTHES some compliments on the great care which he took ofmy education, and on his unwearied perseverance and constancy in all hisfriendships. The father of PAMPHILUS, said he, was your intimate friend:The son is your pupil; and may indeed be regarded as your adop...
I must own, CLEANTHES, said DEMEA, that nothing can more surprise me,than the light in which you have all along put this argument. By thewhole tenor of your discourse, one would imagine that you weremaintaining the Being of a God, against the cavils of Atheists andInfidels; and were necessitated to become a champion for that fundamentalprinciple of...
How the most absurd argument, replied CLEANTHES, in the hands of a man ofingenuity and invention, may acquire an air of probability! Are you notaware, PHILO, that it became necessary for Copernicus and his firstdisciples to prove the similarity of the terrestrial and celestialmatter; because several philosophers, blinded by old systems, andsupporte...
It seems strange to me, said CLEANTHES, that you, DEMEA, who are sosincere in the cause of religion, should still maintain the mysterious,incomprehensible nature of the Deity, and should insist so strenuouslythat he has no manner of likeness or resemblance to human creatures. TheDeity, I can readily allow, possesses many powers and attributes of wh...
But to show you still more inconveniences, continued PHILO, in yourAnthropomorphism, please to take a new survey of your principles. Likeeffects prove like causes. This is the experimental argument; and this,you say too, is the sole theological argument. Now, it is certain, thatthe liker the effects are which are seen, and the liker the causes whic...
It must be a slight fabric, indeed, said DEMEA, which can be erected onso tottering a foundation. While we are uncertain whether there is onedeity or many; whether the deity or deities, to whom we owe ourexistence, be perfect or imperfect, subordinate or supreme, dead oralive, what trust or confidence can we repose in them? What devotion orworship ...
But here, continued PHILO, in examining the ancient system of the soul ofthe world, there strikes me, all on a sudden, a new idea, which, if just,must go near to subvert all your reasoning, and destroy even your firstinferences, on which you repose such confidence. If the universe bears agreater likeness to animal bodies and to vegetables, than to ...
What you ascribe to the fertility of my invention, replied PHILO, isentirely owing to the nature of the subject. In subjects adapted to thenarrow compass of human reason, there is commonly but one determination,which carries probability or conviction with it; and to a man of soundjudgement, all other suppositions, but that one, appear entirely absu...
But if so many difficulties attend the argument a posteriori, said DEMEA,had we not better adhere to that simple and sublime argument a priori,which, by offering to us infallible demonstration, cuts off at once alldoubt and difficulty? By this argument, too, we may prove the infinity ofthe Divine attributes, which, I am afraid, can never be ascerta...
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Full Work Summary. In Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Hume explores whether religious belief can be rational. Because Hume is an empiricist (i.e. someone who thinks that all knowledge comes through experience), he thinks that a belief is rational only if it is sufficiently supported by experiential evidence.
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779) prepared by Peter Millican. Hume’s final masterpiece was mostly written in 1751-2, apparently revised around 1757 and again in 1761, with the last revision taking place only in 1776 when he was very close to death (the timing of these revisions is carefully discussed by M. A. Stewart, “The Dating of Hume’s Manuscripts”, in Paul B. Wood, The ...
David Hume’s Dialogues concerning Natural Religion ( ) 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.
Apr 5, 2024 · A philosophical work written by the Scot 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, mankind can come to knowledge of a deity.
