Titlebook: CSPR;Religion and Hume‘s Legacy; D. Z. Phillips (Danforth Professor of Philosophy o Book 1999 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan

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Hume and the Miraculousvolves the discovery that during his disappearance the two sides of his body were transposed so that his heart now beats to the right, the right lobe of his liver has become the left, his lungs have been inverted in a similar fashion, and his face is now a mirror-image of its original self.

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Voices in Discussionyou are in the first or second category you will never admit miracles. So inductive arguments against miracles simply do not work. Whether you allow that they have actually occurred will depend on your world-view. But, in this case, surely we must admit that miracles are ..

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Hume on Superstitionted. There was of course no novelty in this. Christian theologians and philosophers always explained that pagan religions, especially polytheisms, were superstitions. So the contrast made in this as in earlier periods is standardly between superstitions on the one hand, and whatever is taken to be the ‘true religion’ on the other.

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Can Religion be Rational?irst chapters of Genesis, that the original beliefs and practices of humankind were polytheistic. Fears and ignorance misled our forebears to personify, and to try to conciliate, what we know to be either impersonal natural forces or the operations of such forces.

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D. Z. Phillipseconomic liberalism and free markets, denounced current forms of capitalism on its front page and called for emerging-market Roosevelts to intervene. The global ., it appears, finds ever fewer defenders, and ever more detractors. It is high time, therefore, to take stock of this globalized criticism

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