True religion in Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.
Many think that the aim of Hume’sDialoguesis simply to discredit the design argument for the existence of an intelligent designer. We think instead that theDialoguesprovides a model of true religion. We argue that, for Hume, the truly religious person: (1) believes that an intelligent designer creat...
| Publicado en: | British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 25; no. 2; pp. 244 - 265 |
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