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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion ... Is not such an unequal conduct a plain proof of prejudice and passion? ... That a little philosophy, replied Cleanthes, makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion. That is a very judicious remark too, said Philo.
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion; From Parts 2 and 5; ... Now, according to this method of reasoning, Demea, it follows, (and is, indeed, tacitly allowed by Cleanthes himself,) that order, arrangement, or the adjustment of final causes, is not of itself any proof of design;
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This culminates in his Natural History of Religion (1757) and Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779; published posthumously) – both of which are entirely taken up with philosophical issues in religion.
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plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume-religion/
plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume-religion/
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Demea is the first to react to Cleanthes' argument from design. He does not approve of the claim that God and man are at all similar. Second, he is unhappy that Cleanthes is trying to use an a posteriori proof rather than a priori for God's existence (since the argument by design proves both God's nature and his being).
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Argument from design - The argument by design claims that the order and beauty of the universe are proof that there is an intelligent designer behind its creation. Cleanthes uses the argument by design to prove that we can infer God's nature from the world. ... Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Message Board...
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Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Edited with an Introduc- ... attention is given to the proof of the existence and nature of God by the ... which identify either Cleanthes or Pamphilus as the bearer of the Humian ...
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What I chiefly scruple in this subject, said Philo, is not so much that all religious arguments are by Cleanthes reduced to experience, ... And if the weight requisite very much exceeds any thing which we have ever seen conjoined in any single body, the former supposition becomes still more probable and natural.
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Cleanthes' proof is offered as an "argument from experience" and, ... Pheroze S, Wadia Rutgers University 112 1. See Nelson Pike's Commentary on the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (New York: BobbsMerrill 19701, p. 201. All page references to Pike in the body of this paper are to this extended commentary which includes...
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Happily, these circumstances are all to be found in the subject of Natural Religion. What truth so obvious, so certain, as the Being ... Part I After I joined the company, whom I found sitting in Cleanthes’s library, Demea paid Cleanthes some compliments, ... Is not such an unequal conduct a plain proof of prejudice and passion?
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