Title:
Dialogues concerning natural religion and other writings
Author:
Hume, David, 1711-1776.
ISBN:
9780521603591
9780521842600
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Publication Information:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Physical Description:
liv, 157 p. ; 24 cm.
Series:
Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy
Series Title:
Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy
General Note:
Formerly CIP.
Contents:
Introduction -- Chronology -- Further reading -- Note on the text -- List of abbreviations -- Dialogues concerning natural religion -- Pamphilus to Hermippus Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- Part 4 -- Part 5 -- Part 6 -- Part 7 -- Part 8 -- Part 9 -- Part 10 -- Part 11 -- Part 12 -- Other writings -- From Hume's memoranda -- Fragment on evil -- Letter to Francis Hutcheson -- Letter to William Mure -- Letters to Gilbert Elliot -- From the natural history of religion -- Selections from Pierre Bayle (translated by James Dye)
Abstract:
"David Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, first published in 1779, is one of the most influential works in the philosophy of religion and the most artful instance of philosophical dialogue since the dialogues of Plato. It presents a fictional conversation between a skeptic, an orthodox Christian, and a Newtonian theist concerning evidence for the existence of an intelligent cause of nature based on observable features of the world. This new edition presents it together with several of Hume's other, shorter writings about religion, and with brief selections from the work of Pierre Bayle, who influenced both Hume's views on religion and the dialectical style of the Dialogues. The volume is completed by an introduction which sets the Dialogues in its philosophical and historical contexts."--BOOK JACKET.
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