Hume’s Dialogues

Author: David Hume (1711-1776)

Dialogue form: Different views expressed

Topic:

Natural Religion: What we can know about the being and nature of God through reason and evidence, apart from "special revelation" (e.g. prophets and scripture).

Characters:

Cleanthes: scientific theologian
Demea: rationalist and mystic and fideist?
Philo: skeptic


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Richard Lee, rlee@uark.edu, last modified: 21 January 2003