Book description
In the posthumously published Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion,
the Enlightenment philosopher David Hume attacked many of the
traditional arguments for the existence of God, expressing the belief
that religion is founded on ignorance and irrational fears. Though calm
and courteous in tone - at times even tactfully ambiguous - the
conversations between Hume's vividly realized fictional figures form
perhaps the most searching case ever mounted against orthodox Christian
theological thinking and the 'deism' of the time, which pointed to the
wonders of creation as conclusive evidence of God's Design. Hume's
characters debate these issues with extraordinary passion, lucidity and
humour, in one of the most compelling philosophical works ever written.
David Hume (1711 - 1776) was a philosopher who wrote A Treatise of
Human Nature and considered the nature of religion.
JM Bell is Professor of Philosophy at the Manchester Metropolitan
University and Head of the Department of Politics and Philosophy.
