Download or read book The Nature of Man s Knowledge of God in Aquinas and Hume written by Michael J. Kossak and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Annotated written by David Hume and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is David Hume's famous examination of the nature of God. Hume asks the question as to whether or not man's belief in God can be supported by experience. The subject is discussed between three philosophers named Demea, Philo and Cleanthes. While all three agree that a god exists, they differ sharply in opinion on God's nature and how, or if, humankind can come to knowledge of a deity. Includes footnotes.
Download or read book The Nature of God written by Gerard Hughes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Nature of God, Gerard Hughes takes the central attributes ascribed to God, such as Existence, Simplicity, Omniscience, Omnipotence and Goodness and gives them a historical and analytical background. Incorporating texts by Aquinas, Ockham, Molina, Descartes, Hume and Kant, he aims to give the reader first-hand acquaintance with these classic writers, and to then discuss their arguments in the light of contemporary debate. While the focus of The Nature of God is on the philosophy of religion, Hughes widens his scope to consider its implications in epistemology, metaphysics and moral philosophy. The issues he considers include necessity and possiblity, the relation of logic to epistemology and the connections between causation and moral philosophy.
Download or read book The Problem of God in David Hume written by Anders Kraal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hume (1711-1776) is one of the foremost critics of attempts to provide rational arguments in support of traditional Christian theism in Western philosophy. In this Element, the authors examine Hume's chief objections to the cosmological argument, the design argument, and the argument from miracles, along with some main responses to these objections. The authors also examine Hume's seminal version of the argument from evil, which is deployed in an effort to show that traditional Christian theism is lacking in coherent meaning. Drawing on recent developments in Hume scholarship according to which Hume's ultimate philosophical aim was to further an anti-Christian agenda, an attempt is made to situate Hume's writings on God and religion in an unfolding narrative that is impacted throughout by the trenchant religious criticisms of Hume's chief philosophical predecessor, Thomas Hobbes.
Download or read book Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Illustrates written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work by the Scottish philosopher David Hume, first published in 1779. Through dialogue, three philosophers named Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes debate the nature of God's existence. Whether or not these names reference specific philosophers, ancient or otherwise, remains a topic of scholarly dispute. While all three agree that a god exists, they differ sharply in opinion on God's nature or attributes and how, or if, humankind can come to knowledge of a deity.In the Dialogues, Hume's characters debate a number of arguments for the existence of God, and arguments whose proponents believe through which we may come to know the nature of God. Such topics debated include the argument from design-for which Hume uses a house-and whether there is more suffering or good in the world (argument from evil).
Download or read book An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding written by David Hume and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" is a book by David Hume created as a revision of an earlier work, Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature". The argument of the Enquiry proceeds by a series of incremental steps, separated into chapters which logically succeed one another. After expounding his epistemology, Hume explains how to apply his principles to specific topics. This book has proven highly influential, both in the years that would immediately follow and today. Immanuel Kant points to it as the book which woke him from his self-described "dogmatic slumber."
Download or read book Of the passions written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book NATURE KNOWLEDGE AND GOD AN INTRODUCTION TO THOMISTIC PHILOSOPHY written by BROTHER BENIGNUS and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Briefly Hume s Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding written by David Mills Daniel and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SCM Briefly series is made up of short, accessible volumes which summarize books by philosophers and theologians, books that are commonly used on theology and philosophy A level (school leaving) and Level One undergraduate courses. Each Briefly volume includes line by line analysis and short quotes to give students a feel for the original text. In addition each book begins with a contextualizing introduction about the writer and his writings, and a glossary of terms follows the summary to help students with definitions of philosophical terms
Download or read book A Treatise of Human Nature written by David Hume and published by VM eBooks. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing is more usual and more natural for those, who pretend to discover any thing new to the world in philosophy and the sciences, than to insinuate the praises of their own systems, by decrying all those, which have been advanced before them. And indeed were they content with lamenting that ignorance, which we still lie under in the most important questions, that can come before the tribunal of human reason, there are few, who have an acquaintance with the sciences, that would not readily agree with them. ’Tis easy for one of judgment and learning, to perceive the weak foundation even of those systems, which have obtained the greatest credit, and have carried their pretensions highest to accurate and profound reasoning. Principles taken upon trust, consequences lamely deduced from them, want of coherence in the parts, and of evidence in the whole, these are every where to be met with in the systems of the most eminent philosophers, and seem to have drawn disgrace upon philosophy itself. Nor is there requir’d such profound knowledge to discover the present imperfect condition of the sciences, but even the [ xviii ]rabble without doors may judge from the noise and clamour, which they hear, that all goes not well within. There is nothing which is not the subject of debate, and in which men of learning are not of contrary opinions. The most trivial question escapes not our controversy, and in the most momentous we are not able to give any certain decision. Disputes are multiplied, as if every thing was uncertain; and these disputes are managed with the greatest warmth, as if every thing was certain. Amidst all this bustle ’tis not reason, which carries the prize, but eloquence; and no man needs ever despair of gaining proselytes to the most extravagant hypothesis, who has art enough to represent it in any favourable colours. The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.
Download or read book Hume s Naturalism written by Howard Mounce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hume's Naturalism provides a clear and concise guide to the debates over whether Hume's empiricism or his 'naturalism' in the tradition of the Scottish 'Common Sense' school of philosophy gained his upper hand. This debate is central to any understanding of Hume's thought. H.O. Mounce presents a beautifully clear guide to Hume's most important works, The Treatise on Human Nature and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Accessible to anyone coming to Hume for the first time, Hume's Naturalism affords a much needed overview of the key concepts of empiricism, causation, scepticism, reason and morality that are essential to any understanding of Hume's philosophy.
Download or read book An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 1751 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Illustrated Edition written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-10 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work by the Scottish philosopher David Hume. Through dialogue, three philosophers named Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes debate the nature of God's existence. Whether or not these names reference specific philosophers, ancient or otherwise, remains a topic of scholarly dispute. While all three agree that a god exists, they differ sharply in opinion on God's nature or attributes and how, or if, humankind can come to knowledge of a deity. In the Dialogues, Hume's characters debate a number of arguments for the existence of God, and arguments whose proponents believe through which we may come to know the nature of God. Such topics debated include the argument from design--for which Hume uses a house--and whether there is more suffering or good in the world (argument from evil). Hume started writing the Dialogues in 1750 but did not complete them until 1776, shortly before his death. They are based partly on Cicero's De Natura Deorum. The Dialogues were published posthumously in 1779, originally with neither the author's nor the publisher's name
Download or read book Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion written by David Hume and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Hume explores whether religious belief can be rational. Because Hume is an empiricist (i.e. someone who thinks that all knowledge comes through experience), he thinks that a belief is rational only if it is sufficiently supported by experiential evidence. So the question is really, is there enough evidence in the world to allow us to infer an infinitely good, wise, powerful, perfect God? Hume does not ask whether we can rationally prove that God exists, but rather whether we can rationally come to any conclusions about God's nature. He asserts that the first question is beyond doubt; the latter is initially undecided.Hume presents three characters, each of whom represent a different position on this issue, engaged in a dialogue together. Demea argues for the position of religious Orthodoxy, and insists that we cannot possibly come to know the nature of God through reason. Philo, the philosophical skeptic, agrees with Demea that God is incomprehensible and provides the most convincing arguments for this position. Cleanthes argues the position of empirical theism—the position that we can come to know about God by reasoning from the evidence afforded us by nature—against these two opponents.Together with his characters, Hume forces the reader to reflect not on the existence of God, but on the nature of religion and faith.
Download or read book The Nature of Man and God written by Simon S. Godfrey and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for understanding the meaning of the self and the nature of the Supreme Being has been the nub problem in history. Although these concepts have been expounded in all ages by innumerable philosophers, theologians, and other writers, the fact that they still remain nebulous indicates that more work is warranted in these perennial areas. The Nature of Man and God deals with these two fundamental issues in a clear, concise, and down-to-earth manner. As a psychologist, the author has spent some thirty years investigating the issues in question. The study of the self led him, willy-nilly, to the reality of something that William James called "a More," or something that is popularly known as God. The author found close affinity between the reality of the self and the reality of the Deity. Owing to this affinity, the author proposes that a more palpable way of knowing the Deity is to know one's own true self. On the subject of the self. the author distinguishes between two types: a nominal self, which is a mere echo of the early experiences of the individual, and a transcendental self. the latter can be realized only when human beings set themselves to unlearn what they have been taught on such matters, rely on their inner resources, and become their own gurus-instead of following the instructions of self-proclaimed authorities. Regarding the Divine nature, the author puts forth several challenging new theses. In particular, he enlarges on matters relating to ultimate concerns, the human task, freedom of will, responsibility, and theodicy, explicating why there is evil and suffering in the world. The book invites the reader to reach for a higher plain of humanness. The topics covered are pivotal as the whole of humankind does indeed pivot around them. It is the author's conviction that none of the current personal or international crises can be effectively resolved until humans first learn who they are and what genre of supratemporal intellect powers the scheme of things in the world. The book should appeal to multiple audiences; at a time when it seems nothing can disentangle the state of human affairs, there is a crying need for this kind of book. In particular, it should prove of great interest to all those sincerely seeking to know themselves and their God. the book also provides a workable tool for those seriously involved in improving the human lot, or those weary of on-going superficialities and trivialities of modern life.
Download or read book Natural Signs and Knowledge of God written by C. Stephen Evans and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there such a thing as natural knowledge of God? C. Stephen Evans presents the case for understanding theistic arguments as expressions of natural signs in order to gain a new perspective both on their strengths and weaknesses. Three classical, much-discussed theistic arguments - cosmological, teleological, and moral - are examined for the natural signs they embody. At the heart of this book lie several relatively simple ideas. One is that if there is a God of the kind accepted by Christians, Jews, and Muslims, then it is likely that a 'natural' knowledge of God is possible. Another is that this knowledge will have two characteristics: it will be both widely available to humans and yet easy to resist. If these principles are right, a new perspective on many of the classical arguments for God's existence becomes possible. We understand why these arguments have for many people a continued appeal but also why they do not constitute conclusive 'proofs' that settle the debate once and for all. Touching on the interplay between these ideas and contemporary scientific theories about the origins of religious belief, particularly the role of natural selection in predisposing humans to form beliefs in God or gods, Evans concludes that these scientific accounts of religious belief are fully consistent, even supportive, of the truth of religious convictions.
Download or read book Duns Scotus on the Nature of Man s Knowledge of God written by John Duns Scotus and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
