Refuting The Whole System? Hume's Attack on Popular Religion in The Natural History of Religion.
There is reason for genuine puzzlement about Hume's aim in 'The Natural History of Religion'. Some commentators take the work to be merely a causal investigation into the psychological processes and environmental conditions that are likely to give rise to the first religions, an investigation that h...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 62; no. 249; pp. 715 - 737 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Oct2012
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