- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Texts and Citations
- General Introduction
- Introduction
- Part One
- Part Two
- Part Three
- Part Four
- Part Five
- Parts Six and Seven
- Part Eight
- Part Nine
- Part Ten
- Part Eleven
- Part Twelve
- Conclusion to Section I: Who Speaks for Hume?
- Introduction
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1 Hume, Pyrrhonism, and Fideism -
2 Richard Popkin on Hume and Pyrrhonism -
3 The New Hume -
4 Garrett on Hume’s Notion of a True Religion -
5 David Hume on the Dialogues -
Appendix Some Responses to Hume’s Dialogues - Bibliography
- Index
Part Five
Part Five
- Chapter:
- (p.40) Part Five
- Source:
- Hume's Presence in The Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
- Author(s):
Robert J. Fogelin
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Philo continues to subject Cleanthes’ machine-analogy arguments to Pyrrhonist challenges, and anticipates Cleanthes’ (Part 12) summary view that the origin of the universe “may bear some remote analogy to human intelligence.”
Keywords: finite deity, Cicero, machine analogy, competing hypotheses, alternative deities
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Texts and Citations
- General Introduction
- Introduction
- Part One
- Part Two
- Part Three
- Part Four
- Part Five
- Parts Six and Seven
- Part Eight
- Part Nine
- Part Ten
- Part Eleven
- Part Twelve
- Conclusion to Section I: Who Speaks for Hume?
- Introduction
-
1 Hume, Pyrrhonism, and Fideism -
2 Richard Popkin on Hume and Pyrrhonism -
3 The New Hume -
4 Garrett on Hume’s Notion of a True Religion -
5 David Hume on the Dialogues -
Appendix Some Responses to Hume’s Dialogues - Bibliography
- Index