Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion - And Other Writings

Informationen zum Autor Dorothy Coleman is Adjunct Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University. Klappentext 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 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. Zusammenfassung The Dialogues concerning Natural Religion! first published in 1779! is the one of the most influential works in the philosophy of religion and the most artful instance of philosophical dialogue since the dialogues of Plato. This edition presents it together with several of Hume's other! shorter writings about religion. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Dorothy Coleman, Dorothy (Northern Illinois University) Coleman, David Hume
• Assisted by: Dorothy Coleman (Editor), Coleman Dorothy (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2007
• EAN: 9780521842600
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84260-0
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Cambridge Texts in the History; Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, RELIGION / Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy of religion, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought