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Clearing the Ground; 3. The Design Argument; 4. Examination of the Design Argument: I; 5. Examination of the Design Argument: II; 6. The Cosmological Argument; 7. Other Theistic Arguments; 8. The Problem of Evil; 9. The Limits of Reason; Index of Names; Index of Concepts ...
Hume's Problem of Causationhas remained unsolved for 250 years (NeitherKantnorPopperpositively solved it!) and this lack of certainty, at the very heart of Human Scientific Knowledge, has greatly prejudiced our belief in the possibility of Metaphysics and the certainty of Science, and has ultimate...
Silencing Theodicy with Enthusiasm: Aesthetic Experience as a Response to the Problem of Evil in Shaftesbury, Annie Dillard, and the Book of Job. The problem of evil is not only a logical problem about God's goodness but also an existential problem about the sense of God's presence, which ...
Bentham unleashed a fierce attack on Hume’s theory of virtue and moral sense. Hume stated that “It is only when a character is considered in general, without reference to our particular interest, that it causes such a feeling or sentiment, as denominates it morally good or evil.”[102]...
The evidential problem of evil I attempt to accomplish this by critically discussing an evidential argument from evil against theism offered by David Hume in Part XI of his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. ;Hume's argument appeals to a statement, which I call ... P. Draper - 《Argument...
The problem of miracles is an ancient one that has persisted for most of human history, but that has been addressed with some depth only in the last few centuries. The great empiricist philosopher David Hume was one of the first to present an analysis of miracles that tried to explain why...
Through the whole compass of human knowledge, there are no inferences more certain and infallible than these. In what respect, then, do his benevolence and mercy resemble the benevolence and mercy of men? EPICURUS's old questions are yet unanswered. Is he willing to prevent evil, but not ...
110 DAVID HUME'S INVISIBLE HAND IN THE WEALTH OF NATIONS THE PUBLIC CHOICE OF MORAL INFORMATION Introduction The thesis I shall defend is that there are systematic aspects of Adam Smith's economics which make little sense when read in isolation from a literature in which David Hume provides the...
Lord of the Flies--The Evils of Mankind Thomas Hobbes, an Enlightenment philosopher, claimed that mankind is naturally evil and selfish and will cause conflicts “if any two men desire the same thing, which they nevertheless cannot both enjoy” or have differing opinions, in order to gain more...