Leaving the "Real Hume" in Peace and Reading the Dialogues from a Moral Perspective

This paper offers a new reading of Hume’s much discussed Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779/2000) which shows that, in contrast to what commentators tend to ascribe to Hume, the crux of the text is not epistemological-ontological - that is, not the arguments in favour of and against God’s e...

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Main Author: Segev, Alon (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Rhodes University 2008
In: The Indo-Pacific journal of phenomenology
Year: 2008, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-12
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