The riddle of hume's treatise: skepticism, naturalism, and irreligion

This is the paperback reprint of Paul Russell's 2008 book. In it, Russell challenges the conventional reading of Hume's Treatise with respect to religion. Although it is commonly held that Hume removed religious content from his Treatise. Russell claims that irreligious aims and objectived are fundamental to the Treatise and account for its underlying unity and coherence. INDICE: Abbreviations of Hume's Writings Used in Citations; I. Riddles,Critics, and Monsters: Text and Context; 1.: The Riddle; 2.: 'Atheism' and Hume's Early Critics; 3.: Religious Philosophers and Speculative Atheists; 4.: Newtonianism, Freethought, and Hume's Scottish Context; 5.: The Monster of Atheism: Its Being and Attributes; II. The Form and Face of Hume's System; 6: A Hobbist Plan; 7.: Atheism under Cover: Esoteric Communication on Hume's Title Pages; III. The Nature of Hume's Universe; 8.: Blind Men before a Fire: Empiricism and the Idea of Good; 9.: Making Nothing of 'Almighty Space'; 10.: The Argument a Priori and Hume's 'Curious Nostrum'; 11.: Induction, Analogy, and a Future State: Hume's 'Guide of Life'; 12.: Matter, Omnipotence, and Our Idea of Necessity; 13.: Skepticism, Deception, and the Material World; 14.: Immateriality, Immortality, and the Human Soul; 15.: The Practical Pyrrhonist; IV. The Elements of Virtuous Atheism; 16.: Freedom within Necessity: Hume's 'Clockwork Man'; 17.:. Morality without Religion; V. Hume's Philosophy of Irreligion; 18.:. The Myth of 'Castration' and the Riddle's Solution; 19.: Was Hume an 'Atheist'?; 20.:. Hume's Lucretian Mission: Is It Self-Refuting?; Appendix: Cato's Speech at the Oracle of Ammon; Notes; Bibliography; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-975152-5
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 442
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés