The Natural History of Religion (Library of Modern Religious Thought) - Softcover

Hume, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804703337 ISBN 13: 9780804703338

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1957

Synopsis

Hume's Natural History of Religion may, with his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion be held to mark the beginning of the Philosophy of Religion. Not so clearly a text illustrating modern technology―indeed in its own day it was regarded as skeptical and subversive―the Natural History is remarkably illustrative of the development of religious thought and is a brilliant philosophical contribution to the interpretation of religion. The editor of this reprint discusses Hume's purpose in writing the Natural History and assesses its influence at the present day.

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: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1957
• ISBN 10: 0804703337
• ISBN 13: 9780804703338
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80