Titlebook: CSPR;Religion and Hume‘s Legacy; D. Z. Phillips (Danforth Professor of Philosophy o Book 1999 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan

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Is Humes’s ‘True Religion’ a Religious Belief?rom superstition. In that respect he was a pessimist, believing that though future generations may smile at our superstitions, they will entertain new ones of their own. Hume’s interest in religion was . motivated, arising from his central preoccupation with the nature and limits of human knowledge.

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Voices in Discussions question can be answered independently of one’s world-view. What sort of world do you live in? Are you naturalist, a deist or a supernaturalist? If you are in the first or second category you will never admit miracles. So inductive arguments against miracles simply do not work. Whether you allow t

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Hume on Superstitioners and theologians in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to describe and explain religious beliefs and practices which they, the authors, rejected. There was of course no novelty in this. Christian theologians and philosophers always explained that pagan religions, especially polytheisms, wer

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Voices in Discussioned to the beliefs they held. False religion would be superstitious. So Bayle concentrated on a comparison of practices. Hume, on the other hand, concentrates, not so much on the practices as on the psychological and social reasons for their origins. And although he distinguishes between polytheism a

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Morality and Religion: Towards Meeting Hume’s Challengef whom share Hume’s anti-rationalism) for help in refuting Hume’s equation of ‘true’ with ‘philosophic religion’, and in delineating some less constricted ethico-religious possibilities. And that would contribute to meeting ‘Hume’s challenge’, as I construe it.

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