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 (...
| Published in: | The journal of theological studies |
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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The journal of theological studies
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| Review of: | Spectres of false divinity (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2010) (Pailin, David A.)
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| Summary: | 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’. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flq171 |