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Original Title:	Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and The Natural History of Religion
ISBN:	0199538328 (ISBN13: 9780199538324)
Edition Language:	English

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and The Natural History of Religion

David Hume

Paperback | Pages: 218 pages

Rating: 4.04 | 880 Users | 39 Reviews

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Title	:	Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and The Natural History of Religion
Author	:	David Hume
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Oxford World's Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 218 pages
Published	:	2009 by Oxford University Press (first published 1757)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Religion. Nonfiction. Classics. History

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David Hume is the greatest and also one of the most provocative philosophers to have written in the English language. No philosopher is more important for his careful, critical, and deeply perceptive examination of the grounds for belief in divine powers and for his sceptical accounts of the causes and consequences of religious belief, expressed most powerfully in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and The Natural History of Religion. The Dialogues ask if belief in God can be inferred from the nature of the universe or whether it is even consistent with what we know about the universe. The Natural History of Religion investigates the origins of belief, and follows its development from harmless polytheism to dogmatic monotheism. Together they constitute the most formidable attack upon the rationality of religious belief ever mounted by a philosopher. This edition also includes Section XI of The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and a letter concerning the Dialogues, as well as particularly helpful critical apparatus and abstracts of the main texts, enabling the reader to locate or relocate key topics.

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I gave this book five stars firstly because of its historical importance. There has never been more destructive criticism of natural theology. Next to Kant, it was the sole reason why natural theology was shaken to its core and wasn't rehabilitated till the last century's sixties. Contemporary philosophers of religion made most of its arguments obsolete. Read it for the language.

I am a great fan of David Hume, for several reasons. He is an important philosopher whose views have influenced mine. He always comes across as an interesting person. I have sympathy, as a writer, with his plight of having difficulty being successful as an author (although in the end he was very successful even if mostly as a historian rather than a philosopher). He writes wonderfully: it takes a little effort to get into his style, but once you are there it is a pleasure to read.This volume

In the Natural History of Religion Hume doesn't so much speak against religion as he speaks against the ignorant believers of all the major religions in history. At the very least his critique is equal opportunity, spending as much time speaking against the devotions of the Romans and Greeks as he does the Catholics and Egyptians.

I did my thesis on Hume last year and whenever anyone asks me which Hume they should read, this is what I recommend. Both are reasonably easy to read and comprehend; both have held up over the centuries. His other major works are far more difficult, and, at times, more dated, although they were revolutionary in the eighteenth century and have been influential in philosophy since then.The Dialogs, in particular, makes what is still the most compelling and rational argument against the existence



Im pretty sure I brushed up against Hume in university, but I was too busy getting high and watching Cops to read him properly. Not that I regret watching Cops, which was an education in itself, but I probably shouldve paid more attention to things likeoh, I dont knowthe freaking Western canon. Just for starters.Once you get past the genteel diction, Humes skepticism still seems pretty hardcore, and I can only wonder how it struck his original readers, some of whom must have had their minds well

Off this review: Whereas Hume is very sceptical about the degree to which anything can be rationally understood at all, isnt he? Including why or if the sun will rise tomorrowto say nothing of the nature of God.Yes, the difficulty of demonstrating rationally anything much about God is the focus of my second book, which is Humes "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion". This was published almost a hundred years after Spinozas "Tractatus"again, it was published posthumously, because even in the