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David Hume (April 26, 1711 – August 25, 1776) was a Scottish
philosopher, economist, and historian. He is one of the most important
figures in the history of Western philosophy and of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Although in recent years interest in Hume's works has centred on his philosophical
writing, it was as a historian that he gained his initial fame and his
History of Great Britain was the standard work on English history for
sixty or seventy years until superseded by the History of England by T.
B. Macaulay.
Historians most famously see Humean philosophy as a thoroughgoing form
of skepticism, but many commentators have argued that the element of naturalism
has no less importance in Hume's philosophy. Hume scholarship has tended
to oscillate over time between those who emphasize the skeptical side
of Hume (such as the logical positivists), and those who emphasize the
naturalist side (such as Don Garrett, Norman Kemp Smith, Kerri Skinner,
Barry Stroud, and Galen Strawson).
Hume was heavily influenced by empiricists John Locke and George Berkeley,
along with various Francophone writers such as Pierre Bayle, and various
figures on the Anglophone intellectual landscape such as Isaac Newton,
Samuel Clarke, Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, and Joseph Butler.(more)
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“Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world, and you will scarcely be persuaded that they are anything but sick men's dreams.”
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David Hume ranks among the most influential philosophers in the field
of the philosophy of religion. He criticised the standard proofs for God's
existence, traditional notions of God's nature and divine governance,
the connection between morality and religion, and the rationality of belief
in miracles. He also advanced theories on the origin of popular religious
beliefs, grounding such notions in human psychology rather than in rational
argument or divine revelation. The larger aim of his critique was to disentangle
philosophy from religion and thus allow philosophy to pursue its ends
without either rational over-extension or psychological corruption.
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of the Design Argument: Hume
Hume puts the design argument into the mouth of one of his characters,
Cleanthes. Cleanthes casts the argument as one based on similarity: the
world is similar to a machine; similar effects have similar causes, so
the cause of the world is similar to a human designer or creator. Hume's
way of setting up the argument immediately poses a dilemma for the traditional
or classical theist: she must either side with Cleanthes, embracing an
anthropomorphic conception of God, or she must instead embrace the agnosticism
of Philo and or the purely negative theology of Demea. Classical theism,
which involves a Creator who is "wholly other" than us and yet
who can be known on through His effects, is excluded from the start.
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