The riddle of Hume's Treatise : skepticism, naturalism, and irreligion /
It is widely held that Hume's Treatise has little or nothing to do with problems of religion. Contrary to this view, Paul Russell argues that it is irreligious aims and objectives that are fundamental to the Treatise and account for its underlying unity and coherence.
| Основен автор: | Russell, Paul, 1955- |
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| Автор-организации: | Oxford University Press. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York, N.Y. :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=319419 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Riddle of Hume's Treatise. |
Съдържание:
- The riddle
- "Atheism" and Hume's early critics
- Religious philosophers and speculative atheists
- Newtownianism, freethought, and Hume's Scottish context
- The monster of atheism
- A Hobbist plan
- Atheism under cover
- Blind men before a fire
- Making nothing of "almighty space"
- The argument of a priori and Hume's "curious nostrum"
- Induction, analogy, and a future state
- Matter, omnipotence, and our idea of necessity
- Skepticism, deception, and the material world
- Immateriality, immortality, and the human soul
- The practical pyrrhonist
- Freedom within necessity
- Morality without religion
- The myth of "castration" and the riddle's solution
- Was Hume an "atheist"?
- Hume's Lucretian mission