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ISBN: 9780415201940 | 0415201942
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Copyright: 5/18/2001

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Hume viewed religion as a way to relieve the anxiety caused by our fate, but as he saw it, the natural development of different monotheisms and religions often resulted in persecution and war.Hume on Religionintroduces his major work,Dialogues Concerning NaturalReligion,and assesses Hume's life and the background to the work. The ideas and text of the work are also considered along with Hume's continuing importance to philosophy today.

Preface

A note on the edition of the Dialogues used

xiii

Abbreviations

xiv

Introduction: Hume's Life, his philosophy of religion, and his influence

(22)

Life

(6)

Hume on religion

(1)

Hume's philosophy of religion

(13)

Hume's influence

(2)

An overview of the Dialogues

(14)

Introduction

(1)

The Dialogues in outline

(8)

Natural religion and religion in practice

(5)

The scope and legitimacy of natural religion (Prologue, and Dialogues, Part I)

(16)

Introduction

(2)

The Limits of reason

(14)

Cleanthes' first design argument (Dialogues, Part II)

(24)

Introduction

(1)

Cleanthes' first design argument

(10)

The criteria of good analogical arguments

(4)

Philo's criticism and Cleanthes' rebuttal

(9)

Cleanthes' second design argument: the `irregular' argument (Dialogues, Part III)

(18)

Introduction

(1)

The `irregular' design argument

(8)

Are basic religious beliefs natural beliefs?

(9)

`A mind like the human' (Dialogues, Part IV and V)

(24)

Introduction

(2)

Mysticism, anthropomorphism, scepticism (Dialogues, Part IV)

(12)

Like effects, like causes (Dialogues, Part V)

109

(7)

Philo's concession of design

116

(3)

Naturalism and scepticism (Dialogues, Part VI, VII, and VIII)

119

(28)

Introduction

119

(1)

The hypothesis of living matter and an inherent principle of order (Dialogues, Part VI)

120

(7)

Ranking four causal principles: reason, instinct, generation, vegetation (Dialogues, Part VII)

127

(10)

`The old Epicurean hypothesis' (Dialogues, Part VIII)

137

(10)

Further weakening of natural religion (Dialogues, Part IX)

147

(16)

Introduction

147

(1)

Demea's case for a necessary first cause

148

(13)

Philo's naturalistic hypothesis again

161

(2)

The problem of evil (Dialogues, Parts X and XI)

163

(30)

Introduction

163

(1)

Theism's problem of evil (Dialogues, Part X)

164

(15)

Cleanthes' response to the inference problem: limited theism (Dialogues, Part XI)

179

(6)

Hume's articulation of the basic presuppositions in the standard debate on the problem of evil (Dialogues, Part XI)

185

(2)

The hypothesis of indifference (Dialogues, Part XI)

187

(6)

`True religion' (Dialogues, Part XII)

193

(20)

Introduction

193

(1)

Appearance and reality in Philo's concession of design in nature

194

(7)

True religion and vulgar superstition

201

(4)

The five `ifs'

205

(1)

Scepticism, deism, naturalism, irony

206

(6)

In conclusion: faith and reason

212

(1)

Afterword: where is Hume in Hume's Dialogues?

213

(6)

Who speaks for Hume?

214

(2)

Does Hume conceal his thinking in the Dialogues?

216

(3)

Bibliography

219

(4)

Index

223

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