Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion - Couverture souple

Hume, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0760777713 ISBN 13 : 9780760777718

Editeur : BookAnnex, 2006

Synopsis

David Hume"s Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, first published in 1779, is one of the most influential works in the philosophy of religion and the most artful instance of philosophical dialogue since the dialogues of Plato. It presents a fictional conversation between a sceptic, an orthodox Christian, and a Newtonian theist concerning evidence for the existence of an intelligent cause of nature based on observable features of the world. This new edition presents it together with several of Hume"s other, shorter writings about religion, and with brief selections from the work of Pierre Bayle, who influenced both Hume"s views on religion and the dialectical style of the Dialogues. The volume is completed by an introduction which sets the Dialogues in its philosophical and historical contexts.

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À propos de l'auteur

David Hume was born on April 26, 1711, and grew up in Ninewells and Edinburgh, Scotland. His widowed mother educated her “uncommonly wake-minded” son until he enrolled at age eleven at the University of Edinburgh, where he initially considered a career in law. At fifteen years old, he left the university to answer inner questions of theology and metaphysics. Among his friends were notables Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-78), Adam Smith (1723-90), and James Boswell (1740-95). After his death, others including Auguste Comte (1798-1857), Charles Darwin (1809-82), and Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-95) admitted admiration for his writings.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: BookAnnex
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0760777713
• ISBN 13: 9780760777718
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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