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100 1 Hume, David|4aut
245 10 Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
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520 David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion had not
yet been published when he died in 1776. Even though the
manuscript was mostly written during the 1750s, it did not
appear until 1779. The subject itself was too delicate and
controversial, and Hume’s dialectical examination of
religious knowledge was especially provocative. What
should we teach young people about religion? The
characters Demea, Cleanthes, and Philo passionately
present and defend three sharply different answers to that
question. Demea opens the dialogue with a position derived
from René Descartes and Father Malebranche — God’s nature
is a mystery, but God’s existence can be proved logically.
Cleanthes attacks that view, both because it leads to
mysticism and because it attempts the impossible task of
trying to establish existence on the basis of pure reason,
without appeal to sense experience. As an alternative, he
offers a proof of both God’s existence and God’s nature
based on the same kind of scientific reasoning established
by Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton. Taking a skeptical
approach, Philo presents a series of arguments that
question any attempt to use reason as a basis for
religious faith. He suggests that human beings might be
better off without religion. The dialogue ends without
agreement among the characters, justifying Hume’s choice
of dialogue as the literary style for this topic. Born in
Scotland, Hume challenges much of the philosophy that
prevailed in Europe and England in the 17th and 18th
century. He was especially critical of the rationalism
developed by René Descartes and his followers. Although he
wrote a number of influential essays (including "A
Treatise of Human Nature" and "Inquiry Concerning Human
Understanding"), his dialogues are especially well suited
for the topic of religion. As his character Pamphilus says
: “Any philosophical question that is so obscure and
uncertain that human reason can reach no agreement about
it, if it is treated at all, seems to lead us naturally to
the style of dialogue.”[WeDoBooks]
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