A Defense of Hume on MiraclesPrinceton University Press, 25.03.2010 - 128 Seiten Since its publication in the mid-eighteenth century, Hume's discussion of miracles has been the target of severe and often ill-tempered attacks. In this book, one of our leading historians of philosophy offers a systematic response to these attacks. |
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... acknowledged. When it appeared in 1749, Middleton's work caused a sensation, whereas David Hume's recently published Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748), including its own examination of miracles, was, as he ruefully reports ...
... acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into er- rors. . . . All effects follow not with like certainty from their supposed causes. Some events are found, in all countries and all ...
... acknowledging its importance as a source of well-founded belief: We may observe, that there is no species of reasoning more common, more useful, and even necessary to human life, than that which is derived from the testimony of men, and ...
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Inhalt
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CHAPTER 2 Two Recent Critics | 32 |
CHAPTER 3 The Place of Of Miracles in Humes Philosophy | 54 |
APPENDIX 1 Humes Curious Relationship to Tillotson | 63 |
APPENDIX 2 Of Miracles | 68 |
Notes | 89 |
References | 95 |
Index | 97 |