Placeholder text

Go to cart

Hume on God

By Yoder, Timothy S.

Hume on God Philosophy

Hume on God

By Yoder, Timothy S.

0 - Default Title
Description
David Hume, one of the most influential philosophers to have written in the English language, is widely known as a skeptic and an empiricist. He is famous for raising questions about the existence of things for which there is insufficient empirical evidence, such as souls, the self, miracles, and, perhaps most importantly, God. Despite this reputation, however, Hume's works contain frequent references to a deity, and one searches in vain to find a positive assertion of atheism. This book proposes a different reading of Hume on God, in which Hume is seen as proposing a 'genuine theism'. Yoder investigates Hume's use of irony and his relationship with the Deists of his era and offers a thorough re-examination of Hume's writings on religion. Yoder concludes that, despite Hume's criticisms of the church, religiously-based ethics and the belief in miracles, he stops well short of a rejection of the existence of God. Always a creative thinker, Hume carves out a unique conception of the divine being.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
186
Release Date:
2009-02-01
Publication Date:
2008-12-01
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
184706146X
ISBN13:
9781847061461
Weight:
449 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out