Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion - A Classic Philosophical Debate on God, Reason, and Design

von David Hume

80 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A landmark work of skeptical philosophy, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion examines the limits of reason, the problem of religious belief, and the famous argument from design with David Hume's characteristic clarity, irony, and intellectual force.Presented as a conversation among three speakers-Cleanthes, Demea, and Philo-the work explores whether human reason can prove the existence or nature of God from observation of the natural world. Cleanthes argues from order and apparent design, Demea defends a more traditional and mysterious conception of divine reality, and Philo presses skeptical objections that expose the weakness of drawing confident conclusions about infinite causes from finite human experience. Through this dramatic structure, Hume allows competing positions to test one another without reducing the subject to a simple lecture or dogmatic conclusion.First published posthumously in 1779, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion remains one of the most important philosophical works on religion ever written. Its treatment of natural theology, analogy, causation, evil, and human understanding continues to shape debates in philosophy of religion, Enlightenment thought, skepticism, and theology. For readers interested in the conflict between faith and reason, the design argument, or the foundations of modern secular thought, Hume's dialogue remains both elegant and devastating.

• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube
• ISBN: 9781604595369
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.10.2008
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: A & D Publishing