Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

✍ Scribed by Hume, David;Bell, John Martin

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
• Year: 2010;1990
• Tongue: English
• Series: Penguin classics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

'Were this world ever so perfect a production, it must still remain uncertain, whether all the excellences of the work can justly be ascribed to the workman'

In the posthumously published Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, the Enlightenment philosopher David Hume attacked many of the traditional arguments for the existence of God, expressing the belief that religion is founded on ignorance and irrational fears. Though calm and courteous in tone — at times even tactfully ambiguous — the conversations between Hume's vividly realized fictional figures form perhaps the most searching case ever mounted against orthodox Christian theological thinking and the 'deism' of the time, which pointed to the wonders of creation as conclusive evidence of God's Design. Hume's characters debate these issues with extraordinary passion, lucidity and humour, in one of the most compelling philosophical works ever written.

Based on Hume's own manuscript, Martin Bell...

✦ Subjects

Natural religion;Natural theology;Natuurlijke religie;Philosophy Of Religion;PHILOSOPHY / Religious;Théologie naturelle--Ouvrages avant 1800;;Early works;Electronic books;Natural theology -- Early works to 1800;Théologie naturelle -- Ouvrages avant 1800