ABSTRACT

David Hume was the most important British philosopher of the eighteenth century. His Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a classic text in the philosophy of religion.
Hume on Religion introduces and asseses:
*Hume's life and the background to the Dialogues *the ideas and text of Dialogues *Hume's continuing importance to philosophy.

chapter |22 pages

Introduction

Hume's life, his philosophy of religion, and his influence

chapter |16 pages

The scope and legitimacy of natural religion

(Prologue, and Dialogues, Part I)

chapter |24 pages

Cleanthes' first design argument

(Dialogues, Part II)

chapter |17 pages

Cleanthes' second design argument

The ‘irregular' argument (Dialogues, Part III)

chapter |24 pages

‘A mind like the human'

(Dialogues, Parts IV and V)

chapter |28 pages

Naturalism and scepticism

(Dialogues, Parts VI, VII, and VIII)

chapter |16 pages

Further weakening of natural religion

(Dialogues, Part IX)

chapter |29 pages

The problem of evil

(Dialogues, Parts X and XI)

chapter |20 pages

‘True religion'

(Dialogues, Part XII)