Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Hume on Religion

David Hume was the most important British philosopher of the eighteenth century. Hume on Religion introduces students to his major work on the subject Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 An overview of the Dialogues; Chapter 3 The scope and legitimacy of natural religion; Chapter 4 Cleanthes’ first design argument; Chapter 5 Cleanthes’ second design argument; Chapter 6 ‘A mind like the human’; Chapter 7 Naturalism and scepticism; Chapter 8 Further weakening of natural religion; Chapter 9 The problem of evil; Chapter 10 ‘True religion’;

Über den Autor / die Autorin

David O’Connor is Professor of Philosophy at Seton Hall University. He is the author of God and Inscrutable Evil and The Metaphysics of G.E. Moore.

Zusammenfassung

David Hume was the most important British philosopher of the eighteenth century. His Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a classic text in the philosophy of religion.
Hume on Religion introduces and asseses:
*Hume's life and the background to the Dialogues *the ideas and text of Dialogues *Hume's continuing importance to philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: David O'Connor, O'Connor David
• Verlag: Taylor and Francis
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 12.04.2001
• EAN: 9780415201940
• ISBN: 978-0-415-20194-0
• Seiten: 244
• Abmessung: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Gewicht: 610 g
• Serie: Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, Philosophy of religion, Western philosophy: Enlightenment