Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

We find him more seriously engaged in earnest preparation of his Political Discourses, published two years later.

And his letters to Dr. Gilbert Elliot, a gentleman of great accomplishment, reveal also that by this time, seventeen fifty-one, he had composed his Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, of which a good deal will afterwards be heard.

In these Dialogues, which were not published till after his death, the cause of Theism is upheld by Cleanthes, and Hume tells his correspondent that whatever he can think of to strengthen that side of the argument will be most acceptable to him.

Sir Gilbert gave him his views at length, but few will regard the Dialogues as a prop to theistic belief.

It is significant that nearly every modern theorist on the subject of religion, deist, pantheist, agnostic, pessimist, believer in a limited God, and believer in no God at all, can find his share in Hume and fortify himself by his reasonings.

It was remarked in the introduction that in Hume, as in some of his contemporaries, the sense for religion appears almost entirely wanting.

He tells Sir William Elliot, indeed, apropos of the dialogues concerning natural religion, that he begun his inquiries with a search for the arguments to confirm the common opinion, but that gradually doubts, quote, stole in, end quote.

That stage, however, if it ever existed to any marked extent, was prehistoric in Hume's career.

We find him more seriously engaged in earnest preparation of his political discourses, published two years later.

And his letters to Dr. Gilbert Elliot, a gentleman of great accomplishment, reveal also that by this time, 1751, he had composed his dialogues concerning natural religion, of which a good deal will afterwards be heard.

In these dialogues, which were not published till after his death, the cause of theism is upheld by Cleanthes, and Hume tells his correspondent that whatever he can think of to strengthen that side of the argument will be most acceptable to him.

Sir Gilbert gave him his views at length, but few will regard the dialogues as a prop to theistic belief.

It is significant that nearly every modern theorist on the subject of religion, deist, pantheist, agnostic, pessimist, believer in a limited God, and believer in no God at all, can find his share in Hume and fortify himself by his reasonings.

It was remarked in the introduction that in Hume, as in some of his contemporaries, the sense for religion appears almost entirely wanting.

He tells Sir William Elliot, indeed, apropos of the dialogues concerning natural religion, that he begun his inquiries with a search for the arguments to confirm the common opinion, but that gradually doubts, quote, stole in, end quote.

That stage, however, if it ever existed to any marked extent, was prehistoric in Hume's career.

We find him more seriously engaged in earnest preparation of his Political Discourses, published two years later.

And his letters to Dr. Gilbert Elliot, a gentleman of great accomplishment, reveal also that by this time, 1751, he had composed his Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, of which a good deal will afterwards be heard.

In these Dialogues, which were not published till after his death, the cause of theism is upheld by Cleanthes, and Hume tells his correspondent that whatever he can think of to strengthen that side of the argument will be most acceptable to him.

Sir Gilbert gave him his views at length, but few will regard the Dialogues as a prop to theistic belief.

It is significant that nearly every modern theorist on the subject of religion, deist, pantheist, agnostic, pessimist, believer in a limited God, and believer in no God at all, can find his share in Hume and fortify himself by his reasonings.

It was remarked in the introduction that in Hume, as in some of his contemporaries, the sense for religion appears almost entirely wanting.

He tells Sir William Elliot, indeed, apropos of the dialogues concerning natural religion, that he begun his inquiries with a search for the arguments to confirm the common opinion, but that gradually doubts, quote, stole in, end quote.

That stage, however, if it ever existed to any marked extent, was prehistoric in Hume's career.

We find him more seriously engaged in earnest preparation of his political discourses, published two years later.

And his letters to Dr. Gilbert Elliot, a gentleman of great accomplishment, reveal also that by this time, 1751, he had composed his dialogues concerning natural religion, of which a good deal will afterwards be heard.

In these dialogues, which were not published till after his death, the cause of theism is upheld by Cleanthes, and Hume tells his correspondent that whatever he can think of to strengthen that side of the argument will be most acceptable to him.

Sir Gilbert gave him his views at length, but few will regard the dialogues as a prop to theistic belief.

It is significant that nearly every modern theorist on the subject of religion, deist, pantheist, agnostic, pessimist, believer in a limited God, and believer in no God at all, can find his share in Hume and fortify himself by his reasonings.

It was remarked in the introduction that in Hume As in some of his contemporaries, the sense for religion appears almost entirely wanting.

He tells Sir William Elliot, indeed, apropos of the dialogues concerning natural religion, that he begun his inquiries with a search for the arguments to confirm the common opinion, but that gradually doubts, quote, stole in, end quote.

That stage, however, if it ever existed to any marked extent, was prehistoric in Hume's career.

We find him more seriously engaged in earnest preparation of his political discourses, published two years later.

And his letters to Dr. Gilbert Elliot, a gentleman of great accomplishment, reveal also that by this time, seventeen fifty-one, he had composed his dialogues concerning natural religion, of which a good deal will afterwards be heard.

In these dialogues, which were not published till after his death, the cause of theism is upheld by Cleanthes, and Hume tells his correspondent that whatever he can think of to strengthen that side of the argument will be most acceptable to him.

Sir Gilbert gave him his views at length, but few will regard the dialogues as a prop to theistic belief.

It is significant that nearly every modern theorist on the subject of religion, deist, pantheist, agnostic, pessimist, believer in a limited God, and believer in no God at all, can find his share in Hume and fortify himself by his reasonings.

It was remarked in the introduction that in Hume, as in some of his contemporaries, the sense for religion appears almost entirely wanting.

He tells Sir William Elliot, indeed, apropos of the dialogues concerning natural religion, that he begun his inquiries with a search for the arguments to confirm the common opinion, but that gradually doubts, quote, stole in, end quote.

That stage, however, if it ever existed to any marked extent, was prehistoric in Hume's career.

We find him more seriously engaged in earnest preparation of his political discourses, published two years later.

And his letters to Dr. Gilbert Elliot, a gentleman of great accomplishment, reveal also that by this time, 1751, he had composed his dialogues concerning natural religion, of which a good deal will afterwards be heard.

In these dialogues, which were not published till after his death, the cause of theism is upheld by Cleanthes, and Hume tells his correspondent that whatever he can think of to strengthen that side of the argument will be most acceptable to him.

Sir Gilbert gave him his views at length, but few will regard the dialogues as a prop to theistic belief.

It is significant that nearly every modern theorist on the subject of religion, deist, pantheist, agnostic, pessimist, believer in a limited God and believer in no God at all, can find his share in Hume and fortify himself by his reasonings.

It was remarked in the introduction that in Hume, as in some of his contemporaries, the sense for religion appears almost entirely wanting.

He tells Sir William Elliot, indeed, apropos of the dialogues concerning natural religion, that he begun his inquiries with a search for the arguments to confirm the common opinion, but that gradually doubts, quote, stole in, end quote.

That stage, however, if it ever existed to any marked extent, was prehistoric in Hume's career.