Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: And Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
Cambridge University Press, 4/12/2007
EAN 9780521603591, ISBN10: 0521603595
Paperback, 216 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm
Language: English
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 sceptic, 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 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.
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 Hutchinson
Letter to William Mure
Letters to Gilbert Elliott
From 'The Natural History of Religion'
Selections from Pierre Bayle.