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Religia według Hume’a
Hume and Religion

Author(s): Milena Jakubiak
Subject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: David Hume; philosophy of religion; rationality of religion; arguments for the existence of God; Christian morality; God and ethics; secular ethics; atheism

Summary/Abstract: This article is an outline of David Hume’s philosophy of religion. His critical stanceon the rationality of the religious beliefs consists of two issues. First, a problem ofthe arguments for the existence of God (the cosmological argument and the argumentfrom the design) will be discussed e.i. can we infer a cause from an effect?Second, I will try to answer the question whether the religion is natural (universal andoriginal): there will be discussed the origins of religion and the issue of religion asan artificial morality. Last there will be presented some argument for the rationalityof religion on the basis of David Hume’s philosophy of religion.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 22
  • Page Range: 189-218
  • Page Count: 30
  • Language: Polish