The Riddle of Hume’s Treatise: Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion. By Paul Russell
As Paul Russell notes, it has been widely considered that while the original text of A Treatise of Human Nature contained material that could be expected to offend religious believers, David Hume removed this material, or at least much of it, before he published the work in an attempt to head off re...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 62, Issue: 2, Pages: 787-793 |
| Review of: | The riddle of Hume's Treatise (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2010) (Pailin, David A.)
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| Summary: | As Paul Russell notes, it has been widely considered that while the original text of A Treatise of Human Nature contained material that could be expected to offend religious believers, David Hume removed this material, or at least much of it, before he published the work in an attempt to head off religious criticisms of it. Commentators on the work, furthermore, have also claimed that there is a basic and unresolved tension between the radical scepticism that Hume develops in this work and the naturalism to which he appeals. In this extensive and detailed study of the Treatise Russell challenges these common interpretations of it. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flr061 |