Spectres of False Divinity: Hume’s Moral Atheism. By Thomas Holden

Theists faced by David Hume’s trenchant criticisms of the arguments put forward in natural theology to warrant belief in God have sometimes sought comfort in the fact that Hume nevertheless still affirms some form of such belief. For example, in the final section of his Natural History of Religion (...

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Auteur principal: Pailin, David A. 1936- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Review
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Oxford University Press 2011
Dans: The journal of theological studies
Année: 2011, Volume: 62, Numéro: 1, Pages: 402-405
Compte rendu de:Spectres of false divinity (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2010) (Pailin, David A.)
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Résumé:Theists faced by David Hume’s trenchant criticisms of the arguments put forward in natural theology to warrant belief in God have sometimes sought comfort in the fact that Hume nevertheless still affirms some form of such belief. For example, in the final section of his Natural History of Religion (§15) Hume comments that ‘the universal propensity to believe in invisible, intelligent power … may be considered as a kind of mark or stamp, which the divine workman has set upon his work’, while at the end of his Dialogues concerning Natural Religion (§12) Philo (who is generally taken to present Hume’s own views) allows, in spite of his criticisms, that ‘the cause or causes of order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence’.
ISSN:1477-4607
Contient:Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/jts/flq171