Routledge philosophy guidebook to Hume on religion /
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| Author / Creator: | O'Connor, David, 1949- |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2001. |
| Description: | xv, 227 p. ; 21 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge philosophy guidebooks |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5477151 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- A note on the edition of the Dialogues used
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction: Hume's life, his philosophy of religion, and his influence
- Life
- Hume on religion
- Hume's philosophy of religion
- Hume's influence
- 2. An overview of the Dialogues
- Introduction
- The Dialogues in outline
- Natural religion and religion in practice
- 3. The scope and legitimacy of natural religion (Prologue, and Dialogues, Part I)
- Introduction
- The limits of reason
- 4. Cleanthes' first design argument (Dialogues, Part II)
- Introduction
- Cleanthes' first design argument
- The criteria of good analogical arguments
- Philo's criticism and Cleanthes' rebuttal
- 5. Cleanthes' second design argument: the 'irregular' argument (Dialogues, Part III)
- Introduction
- The 'irregular' design argument
- Are basic religious beliefs natural beliefs?
- 6. 'A mind like the human' (Dialogues, Parts IV and V)
- Introduction
- Mysticism, anthropomorphism, scepticism (Dialogues, Part IV)
- Like effects, like causes (Dialogues, Part V)
- Philo's concession of design
- 7. Naturalism and scepticism (Dialogues, Parts VI, VII, and VIII)
- Introduction
- The hypothesis of living matter and an inherent principle of order (Dialogues, Part VI)
- Ranking four causal principles: reason, instinct, generation, vegetation (Dialogues, Part VII)
- 'The old Epicurean hypothesis' (Dialogues, Part VIII)
- 8. Further weakening of natural religion (Dialogues, Part IX)
- Introduction
- Demea's case for a necessary first cause
- Philo's naturalistic hypothesis again
- 9. The problem of evil (Dialogues, Parts X and XI)
- Introduction
- Theism's problem of evil (Dialogues, Part X)
- Cleanthes' response to the inference problem: limited theism (Dialogues, Part XI)
- Hume's articulation of the basic presuppositions in the standard debate on the problem of evil (Dialogues, Part XI)
- The hypothesis of indifference (Dialogues, Part XI)
- 10. 'True religion' (Dialogues, Part XII)
- Introduction
- Appearance and reality in Philo's concession of design in nature
- True religion and vulgar superstition
- The five 'ifs'
- Scepticism, deism, naturalism, irony
- In conclusion: faith and reason
- Afterword: where is Hume in Hume's Dialogues?
- Who speaks for Hume?
- Does Hume conceal his thinking in the Dialogues?
- Bibliography
- Index
