Hume's Minimal Theism and the Supervised Christian Church

A Philosophical and Historical Analysis of the Idea of True Religion

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvPéter Hartl

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In this book, Péter Hartl offers a novel and comprehensive interpretation of David Hume’s philosophy of religion focusing on various notions of ‘true religion’ in Hume’s overall philosophy and how these ideas relate to various early modern positions on religion, society and philosophy.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-06-06
Mått148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt368 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor177
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031549441

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Péter Hartl (PhD, University of Aberdeen) was a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest (formerly known as the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). Until 2022, he was a member of the MTA-Lendület Morals and Values Research Group. He has published works on epistemology, the philosophy of Michael Polanyi and that of David Hume, including two papers on Hume’s philosophy of religion, Hume and the art of theological lying (Journal of Scottish Philosophy), and Hume on the rational and irrational origins of religion (Hume Studies). In addition to co-editing The Value of Truth special issue of Synthese and the volume entitled Science, Freedom, Democracy (Routledge, 2021), Hartl also edited Science, Faith, Society: new essays on the philosophy of Michael Polanyi (Springer, 2024).

1: Introduction.- 2: Negative readings of ‘true religion’: some general problems with interpretation.- 3: Against negative readings of ‘true religion’.- 4: Anthropomorphism and priestly power: Hume’s criticism of popular religion.- 5: Hume against Christian natural theology and analogical reasoning on God.- 6: True religion as true philosophy: its intellectual, emotional and moral aspects.- 7: Reformed popular religion: a supervised state church and religious fictionalism.- 8: Summary.