Titlebook: Hume‘s Critique of Religion: ‘Sick Men‘s Dreams‘; Alan Bailey,Dan O‘Brien Book 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 Blasphe

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Blasphemy, Dissimulation, and Humean Prudence, published writings denying the truth of Christianity were liable to legal prosecution in Britain and elsewhere in Europe as blasphemy. Moreover, the penalties that could be inflicted on an author or publisher remained severe even though the power of the self-proclaimed religion of love to engage in

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,Hume’s Writings on Religion,vantage of being able to test these pronouncements against the detailed reports of people who have questioned him personally on this topic. Similarly, the testimony handed down in records of Hume’s private conversations allows us to be confident that when Hume affects in the . and ‘Of the Immortalit

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Epistemological Scepticism and Religious Belief,-ranging and radical form of epistemological scepticism. Unlike some alleged sceptics, Hume is not merely calling into question our ability to know things for certain: his target is rather our supposed capacity to have beliefs that possess any positive degree of epistemic justification. Classical Py

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,The Design Argument and Empirical Evidence of God’s Existence,ptation exhibited by biological organisms, makes it reasonable to infer that the universe has been created or shaped by a divine mind. Moreover, in eighteenth-century Britain the prestige attached to this line of argument was such that it was often seen as a complete answer in itself to the cavils o

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The Problem of Evil,. It became apparent that Hume’s rejection of the traditional . arguments is completely uncompromising: he believes that they are utterly worthless. His final assessment of the design argument, however, proved less easy to determine. In the course of the . and the . Hume articulates some powerful cr

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Miracles,ver the course of his life, such as turning water into wine, raising Lazarus from the dead and feeding 5,000 with a few loaves and fishes. Belief in modern day miracles may be optional for many Christians, but belief in at least some of the Biblical miracles is not. Further, the occurrence of miracl

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The Natural History of Religion,eity, that the order in nature does not suggest the intervening hand of a providential, Christian God, and that we should not believe that miracles have occurred. In sum, there are no good reasons to believe in God and there is no evidence in support of the truth of Christianity. In his ., Hume seem

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Morality,rrences. Further, in the absence of any good reasons for belief in the existence of God, Hume provides a natural history that explains the prevalence of religious belief amongst human societies. It is important to note, though, that Hume’s attitude to religion is not that of a dispassionate philosop