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Hume on God - Irony, Deism and Genuine Theism (Hardcover)
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Hume on God - Irony, Deism and Genuine Theism (Hardcover)
Series: Continuum Studies in British Philosophy
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This book presents a thorough and innovative study of Hume's
philosophy of religion, a topic central to his whole philosophical
project. 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.
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