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Author : David Hume
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book Of Superstition and Enthusiasm written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Hume
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 5 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book Of Superstition and Enthusiasm written by David Hume and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Hume
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781523295159
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Life of David Hume, Esq written by David Hume and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of David Hume, Esq And Of Superstition and Enthusiasm David Hume 2 Books in One David Hume (26 April 1711 OS) - 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of radical philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism. BOOK 1 The Life of David Hume, Esq It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity; therefore, I shall be short. It may be thought an instance of vanity that I pretend at all to write my life; but this Narrative shall contain little more than the History of my Writings; as, indeed, almost all my life has been spent in literary pursuits and occupations. The first success of most of my writings was not such as to be an object of vanity. I was born the 26th of April 1711, old style, at Edinburgh. I was of a good family, both by father and mother: my father's family is a branch of the Earl of Home's, or Hume's; and my ancestors had been proprietors of the estate, which my brother possesses, for several generations. My mother was daughter of Sir David Falconer, President of the College of Justice: the title of Lord Halkerton came by succession to her brother. BOOK 2 Of Superstition and Enthusiasm That the corruption of the best of things produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion. These two species of false religion, though both pernicious, are yet of a very different, and even of a contrary nature. The mind of man is subject to certain unaccountable terrors and apprehensions, proceeding either from the unhappy situation of private or public affairs, from ill health, from a gloomy and melancholy disposition, or from the concurrence of all these circumstances. In such a state of mind, infinite unknown evils are dreaded from unknown agents; and where real objects of terror are wanting, the soul, active to its own prejudice, and fostering its predominant inclination, finds imaginary ones, to whose power and malevolence it sets no limits.
Author : Henry Winn
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Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book Superstition, Fanaticism, and Enthusiasm. A tract for the times written by Henry Winn and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart Vyse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192551310
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book Superstition: A Very Short Introduction written by Stuart Vyse and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you touch wood for luck, or avoid hotel rooms on floor thirteen? Would you cross the path of a black cat, or step under a ladder? Is breaking a mirror just an expensive waste of glass, or something rather more sinister? Despite the dominance of science in today's world, superstitious beliefs - both traditional and new - remain surprisingly popular. A recent survey of adults in the United States found that 33 percent believed that finding a penny was good luck, and 23 percent believed that the number seven was lucky. Where did these superstitions come from, and why do they persist today? This Very Short Introduction explores the nature and surprising history of superstition from antiquity to the present. For two millennia, superstition was a label derisively applied to foreign religions and unacceptable religious practices, and its primary purpose was used to separate groups and assert religious and social authority. After the Enlightenment, the superstition label was still used to define groups, but the new dividing line was between reason and unreason. Today, despite our apparent sophistication and technological advances, superstitious belief and behaviour remain widespread, and highly educated people are not immune. Stuart Vyse takes an exciting look at the varieties of popular superstitious beliefs today and the psychological reasons behind their continued existence, as well as the likely future course of superstition in our increasingly connected world. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Andre C. Willis
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271065788
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)
Download or read book Toward a Humean True Religion written by Andre C. Willis and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hume is traditionally seen as a devastating critic of religion. He is widely read as an infidel, a critic of the Christian faith, and an attacker of popular forms of worship. His reputation as irreligious is well forged among his readers, and his argument against miracles sits at the heart of the narrative overview of his work that perennially indoctrinates thousands of first-year philosophy students. In Toward a Humean True Religion, Andre Willis succeeds in complicating Hume’s split approach to religion, showing that Hume was not, in fact, dogmatically against religion in all times and places. Hume occupied a “watershed moment,” Willis contends, when old ideas of religion were being replaced by the modern idea of religion as a set of epistemically true but speculative claims. Thus, Willis repositions the relative weight of Hume’s antireligious sentiment, giving significance to the role of both historical and discursive forces instead of simply relying on Hume’s personal animus as its driving force. Willis muses about what a Humean “true religion” might look like and suggests that we think of this as a third way between the classical and modern notions of religion. He argues that the cumulative achievements of Hume’s mild philosophic theism, the aim of his moral rationalism, and the conclusion of his project on the passions provide the best content for this “true religion.”
Author : John Evans
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Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Unhappy Effects of Enthusiasm & Superstition written by John Evans and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : John EVANS (LL.D., of Islington.)
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Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Unhappy Effects of Enthusiasm and Superstition. A Sermon [on 2 Tim. I. 7]. written by John EVANS (LL.D., of Islington.) and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004415270
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book Idealist Alternatives to Materialist Philosophies of Science written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idealist Alternatives to Materialist Philosophies of Science (ed. Philip MacEwen) presents some of the major challenges to materialist interpretations of science while also giving materialism a full hearing.
Author : David Hume
Publisher : Paul Carus Student Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780812691122
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book Writings on Religion written by David Hume and published by Paul Carus Student Editions. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penetrating, ironic, and witty, David Hume's writings on religion scandalized his contemporaries. Ever since Hume, traditional religious doctrines have been intellectually on the defensive. Yet these writings have also provided some materials for conducting the defense, and have raised conceptual problems still unresolved. This volume contains all of Hume's works specifically on religion.
