Hume's Tacit Atheism
A recent paper, Hume's Immanent God', (in (I))* by George Nathan, contains an insightful interpretation of Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (henceforth, briefly, D). Insight is no guarantee against error. I shall argue that Nathan's interpretation is mistaken, and th...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1975]
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Religious studies
Year: 1975, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 19-35 |
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| Summary: | A recent paper, Hume's Immanent God', (in (I))* by George Nathan, contains an insightful interpretation of Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (henceforth, briefly, D). Insight is no guarantee against error. I shall argue that Nathan's interpretation is mistaken, and then offer my own.Nathan observes that the general tendency in scholarship on D has been to focus on its sceptical side. He proposes to bring out Hume's positive contribution'. Nathan's thesis, briefly, is that D best supports a modestly theistic interpretation according to which God is the ultimate cause of order in the universe. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412500008155 |