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| Hume's project in ‘The natural history of religion' | ||
| 作者 | Falkenstein, Lorne |
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| 出處題名 | Religious Studies |
| 卷期 | v.39 n.1 |
| 出版日期 | 2003.03 |
| 頁次 | 1 - 21 |
| 出版者 | Cambridge University Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.cambridge.org/ |
| 出版地 | Cambridge, UK [劍橋, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | There are good reasons to think that at least a part of Hume's project in the 'The natural history of religion' was to buttress a philosophical critique of the reasonableness of religious belief undertaken in other works, and to attack a fundamentalist account of the history of religion and the foundations of morality. But there are also problems with supposing that Hume intended to achieve either of these goals. I argue that two problems in particular - accounting for Hume's neglect of revelation, and accounting for his remarks on the 'invincibility' of the reasons for ' genuine theism' - can only be resolved by recognizing that Hume's purposes in 'The natural history' were not fundamentally critical. If I am right, Hume's purpose was mainly to explain why 'false' or 'adulterate' forms of religious belief are so widespread and so influ |
| 目次 | 'The natural history' and the fundamentalist account 4 'The natural history' and general consent 12 Appendix: Hume's preface to 'The natural history' 16 Notes 18 |
| ISSN | 00344125 (P); 1469901X (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 224 |
| 建檔日期 | 2008.07.29 |
| 更新日期 | 2019.10.25 |
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