About this title: Humankind has pondered many mysteries, but few more enticing than the existence of a divine creator who is said to have set the universe in motion. Imitating the well-known style of Platonic dialogues, the relentless inquirer and empiricist David Hume assembles a group to discuss the existence of God, his divine nature, his attributes, and the point of his creation. How do we come to have knowledge of God? Who has the burden of proof with respect to these matters of intense religious significance, and what sort of proof might gain universal assent? Can one argue from the orderliness of the ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Hafner Pub. Co., New York
Date Published: 1959
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. 1959 Hafner soft cover. NOT EX LIB! Bright pages, lots of bent corners, notes & underlining. Barely creased spine, moderate edgewear & light cover scuffing. 95 p. The Hafner library of classics. Bibliography: p. xviii. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Buffalo, New York
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780879755270ISBN:087975527X
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library copy in protective plastic cover. Card pocket plus normal markings, binding tight. Text is clean, no stains or tears, edges stamped. Cover is clean with moderate wear. Firm, solid copy. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 114 p. Great Books in Philosophy. read more
Edition: Fifteenth Printing
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Hafner Pub. Co., New York
Date Published: 1972
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Has notes by former owner on eps and only 2 pages, o/w clean, tight. xviii, 95 p. The Hafner library of classics.. Includes bibliography. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date Published: 1989-03
ISBN-13:9780879755270ISBN:087975527X
Description: Good- Format: Trade Paperback. Year: 1989. Prometheus's Great Books in Philosophy Series. Good Minus. Highlighting. Some underlining. read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date Published: 03/01/1989
ISBN-13:9780879755270ISBN:087975527X
Description: Fair. 087975527X Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Prometheus's Great Books in Philosophy Series)-Used book in acceptable condition. Spine, cover and pages will show wear. This volume may have any/all of the following: Textual marks; Moisture spots; Foxing; Bent Pages/Covers; Small Tears; Weak Hinges; Highlighting. Binding: Paperback ISBN13: 9780879755270 Size: 5.8 x 8.2 x.4 in. We are professional and prompt. read more
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Edition: 21st
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Hafner
Date Published: 1948
Description: Good. As issued No Jacket. Slight spine lean, corner bumps, some pencil underlining to the introduction, some fading to the lower edge of the covers, and other light to moderate shopwear. read more
"This is pretty good. You can see the arguments for intelligent design laid out over a century ago. The language is kinda tough for the contemporary reader (I needed a philosophy class to really digest it), but the ideas are solid."
"It's sort of sad how Hume has already used & debunked (resp.) all arguments in favor of and against religion in this work (and a bit in his other works).. I have yet to encounter an argument used by contemporary "thinkers" in the public debate that is new (if you ignore the fact that some of the details have changed). Organized religion is a bore."
"I read this book for Cornel West's course on Hume & Kant during my last semester at Union Theological Seminary in New York. This and his Treatise of Human Nature are my favorite books by Hume, one of my favorite philosophers.
It struck me today whilst thinking back upon Hume that his critique of necessity in evidentiary cases of causality, the spark that set off Kant's revolution in philosophy, might be a salutory read for those, like Einstein, who've been troubled by developments in microphysics which have shattered some of the last vestiges of apodictic necessity in the physical sciences. What Hume noted was that there is no such thing as a law as regards our understandings of experience. As regards causal relations, the best we can hope for are more, rather than less, likely patterns, strong tendencies which may be relied on. Some, of course, approach the ideal of lawfulness such as the "laws" of Newtonian mechanics, but, as Kant noted, the ideal of perfect lawfulness in nature is something we impose upon it. Such necessity in the physical sciences is but "a regulative ideal of the Vernunft", something aimed at and aspired to, but never obtainable to finite beings like ourselves restricted, as we are, to our finite inductions from experiment and experience. This being acknowledged, the probability vectors of electrons, indeterminacy and the uncertainty principle, are not so hard to adjust to after all."
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