David Hume: The Natural History of Religion - Softcover

Fieser, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0023372508 ISBN 13: 9780023372506

Publisher: Pearson, 1991

Synopsis

The only point of theology, in which we shall find a consent of mankind almost universal, is, that there is invisible, intelligent power in the world: But whether this power be supreme or subordinate, whether confined to one being; or distributed among several, what attributes, qualities, connexions, or principles of action ought to be ascribed to those beings, concerning all these points, there is the widest difference in the popular systems of theology.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Library of Liberal Arts title.

About the Author:

David Hume was an eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist, and the author of A Treatise of Human Nature, considered by many to be one of the most important philosophical works ever published.

Hume attended the University of Edinburgh at an early age and considered a career in law before deciding that the pursuit of knowledge was his true calling. Hume s writings on rationalism and empiricism, free will, determinism, and the existence of God would be enormously influential on contemporaries such as Adam Smith, as well as the philosophers like Schopenhauer, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Popper, who succeeded him. Hume died in 1776.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0023372508
• ISBN 13: 9780023372506
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112