Titlebook: Hume’s Philosophy of Religion; J. C. A. Gaskin Book 1988Latest edition J. C. A. Gaskin 1988 god.immortality.philosophy of religion.religio

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God and Natural Orderof the chapter I shall argue that the propensity to believe in god, which we are half inclined to regard as a natural belief, comes in main part from our . (reported in Cleanthes’ ‘irregular’ design argument) that cosmic order originates in an intelligent agent.

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Being and Necessityg like Descartes’ ontological argument in . V. (if not actually Anselm’s original in the .). It is, however much more likely that in these passages he is concerned with the ‘necessarily existent being’ which . figures in the cosmological argument: that ‘simple and sublime argument .’ set out by Demea in . IX.

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The Dispassionate Scepticangled and interdependent subsidiary questions both of which have inflamed such protracted controversy as to be in danger of becoming tedious. The first of these subsidiary questions is: who speaks for Hume in the .. The second asks whether the . are concerned with what can be known about god (his nature) or with the existence of god (his being).

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Book 1988Latest editionis hard to imagine how a study of Hume on religion could have been at once more comprehensive, accurate, readable and scholarly than this...it is strongly to be recommended to all who have occasion to study or to teach Hume in colleges or universities.‘ W.D.Hudson, Expository Times.

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Scepticism and Natural Beliefool metaphysics’ all these lead to the question: If there are no good and sufficient grounds for a reasoned belief in god, why is the belief so widely held? A number of distinct answers to this question are discussed by Hume.

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2947-0242 or concern is with a clear discussion and presentation of philosophical issues wherever they occur in Hume‘s writings, but items in the history of ideas, questions of interpretation and biographical details are introduced when they contribute to an understanding of Hume‘s position. Already reviewed

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Evil, Freedom and the Religious Hypothesisthe .. Section VIII of the . contains some remarks on freedom and necessity which are relevant to what, following Flew and Plantinga, I shall call the ‘Free Will Defence’. But these form an argument in their own right and I shall deal with them separately in the final section of this chapter.