Hume and the contention of superstitions
This paper proposes an interpretation of the renowned last section of Hume's Natural History of Religion, after examining this work and its relations with some of his other works. The aim of this study is to give the clues to understanding Hume's critique of a rationally founded natural re...
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Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú - Departamento de Humanidades
2013
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| Online Access: | http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113142 http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/arete/article/view/5549/5545 |
| Summary: | This paper proposes an interpretation of the renowned last section of Hume's Natural History of Religion, after examining this work and its relations with some of his other works. The aim of this study is to give the clues to understanding Hume's critique of a rationally founded natural religion. The paper mainly contends that Hume destroys the basis for a rational religion independent or autonomous regarding superstition. He does so by means of a historical analysis of religious belief's process embedded in human nature's principies. All forms of religion are, therefore, some form or other of superstitious belief. === En este artículo se presenta una interpretación del conocido párrafo final de la Historia natural de la religión, mediante un examen de esta obra y de sus relaciones con otras obras de Hume. El objetivo de este estudio es proporcionar las claves para entender la crítica de Hume a una religión natural racional mente fundada. La tesis principal sostieneque Hume. mediante un análisis histórico del proceso de la creencia religiosa a partir de los principios de la naturaleza humana, destruye el sustento para una religión racional independiente o autónoma respecto a la superstición. Toda modalidad de religión es. por consiguiente, unau otra forma de creencia supersticiosa. |
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