Hume's Tacit Atheism

Charles Echelbarger

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Hume's philosophy and hair distribution Study and Philosophy of Religion Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics

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A recent paper, ‘Hume's Immanent God’, (in (I))* by George Nathan, contains an insightful interpretation of Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (henceforth, briefly, D). Insight is no guarantee against error. I shall argue that Nathan's interpretation is mistaken, and then offer my own. Nathan observes that the general tendency in scholarship on D has been to focus on its sceptical side. He proposes to ‘bring out Hume's positive contribution’. Nathan's thesis, briefly, is that D best supports a modestly theistic interpretation according to which God is the ultimate cause of order in the universe.

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1779Dialogues concerning Natural Religion 2012AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING 1994DIALOGUES CONCERNING NATURAL RELIGION 1926Studies in the Philosophy of David Hume.1925Studies in the Philosophy of David Hume.

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