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Toward a Humean True Religion - Genuine Theism, Moderate Hope, and Practical Morality (Hardcover)
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Toward a Humean True Religion - Genuine Theism, Moderate Hope, and Practical Morality (Hardcover)
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David Hume is traditionally seen as a devastating critic of
religion. He is widely read as an infidel, a critic of the
Christian faith, and an attacker of popular forms of worship. His
reputation as irreligious is well forged among his readers, and his
argument against miracles sits at the heart of the narrative
overview of his work that perennially indoctrinates thousands of
first-year philosophy students. In Toward a Humean True Religion,
Andre Willis succeeds in complicating Hume’s split approach to
religion, showing that Hume was not, in fact, dogmatically against
religion in all times and places. Hume occupied a “watershed
moment,” Willis contends, when old ideas of religion were being
replaced by the modern idea of religion as a set of epistemically
true but speculative claims. Thus, Willis repositions the relative
weight of Hume’s antireligious sentiment, giving significance to
the role of both historical and discursive forces instead of simply
relying on Hume’s personal animus as its driving force. Willis
muses about what a Humean “true religion” might look like and
suggests that we think of this as a third way between the classical
and modern notions of religion. He argues that the cumulative
achievements of Hume’s mild philosophic theism, the aim of his
moral rationalism, and the conclusion of his project on the
passions provide the best content for this “true religion.”
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