Hume & Gods Existence

Brief Background of Hume

David Hume was born in the year of 1711 and passed away in 1776. Hume is a Scottish philosopher and born was in Edinburgh. He was the third great exponent of British empiricism, after John Locke and George Berkeley. After completing the study of jurisprudence in the year of 1734; Hume spent several years in France, Reims and La Flèche. Hume's youth was characterized by numerous readings, which included the works of Virgil, Cicero, Hutcheson, Bayle and Malebranche. In 1737, Hume returned to England, after having prepared the Treatise of Human Nature. In 1739, he published the first two parts of the Treaty, and in 1740 he published the third part. The Treaty initially found little consensus, and Hume's work was later defined as a job "stillborn”. In 1748 Hume had the publication of the Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, followed in 1751 by the Research on the principles of morality and Natural History of Religion. In 1754 he began writing the publication of the History of England, Hume's work better known in his time, was criticized for judgments about the fate of Charles I. In 1757 he was stopped by the clerical opposition in relation to the publication of a booklet with Five Dissertations, including those on immortality of the soul, On Suicide, On passion and tragedy, as well as the Natural History of Religion; Four Dissertations were published, expunging the first two essays, replaced with The Standard of Taste. In 1762 they completed the publication of the History of England. In 1763 Hume left for France to accompany Lord Hertford, first as secretary, then as charge of the affairs of the embassy; intellectuals such as Diderot and D'Alembert received him warmly Hume. They returned to Edinburgh in 1766, the year in which Rousseau followed him after he was expelled from Switzerland. Hume hosted Rousseau, who was suspected that the Scottish philosopher had a plot against him, he decided to leave Britain. In 1769 Hume retired to Edinburgh with his ??sister Katherine. After the death of Hume it was his grandson who published dialogues concerning Natural Religion. With dialogues concerning natural religion Hume criticized the different types of evidence for the existence of god, defining arbitrary as any analogy between the natural and the human environment.

Hume compares three schools of thought:

1. Theism Newtonian empirical evidence and the movement of Lockean empiricism embodied in the character of Cleanthes.

2. The a priori evidence that is demonstrative from a typical line of thought of Descartes-Leibniz embodied in the character of Demea.

3. Methodical and philosophical skepticism of Hume which it is one of the greatest examples in history of philosophy gored in the character of Philo.

The Proof of the Sequence Of Actions

One of the most reliable proofs of God's existence since the time of the famous book of Aristotle's Metaphysics LAMBDA is the "first cause" by Hume. Following the typical method of reasoning Hume states in a brief summary that the experience takes the ...