Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
And Other Writings

An edition of Hume's influential work on religion, including several of his shorter texts.

Dorothy Coleman (Edited by)

9780521842600, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 12 April 2007

216 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.46 kg

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 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.

Pamphilus to Hermippus
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Part 10
Part 11
Part 12
Other writings: From Hume's memoranda
Fragment on evil
Letter to Francis Hutchinson
Letter to William Mure
Letters to Gilbert Elliott
From 'The Natural History of Religion'
Selections from Pierre Bayle.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX], Philosophy of religion [HRAB], Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 [HPCD], Philosophy [HP]