Date of Award
Summer 2005
Document Type
Dissertation - Restricted
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Philosophy
First Advisor
Starr, William
Second Advisor
Schmidt, Claudia
Third Advisor
Stohrer, Walter
Abstract
It is part of the received history of Western civilization that David Hume, the famous Scottish philosopher and historian, is an unavowed opponent of all things religious. He is a dismantler of theistic proofs, a disbeliever in the life to come and miracles, and a railer against all forms of religious practices, like prayer and worship. But above all, Hume is reputed to be a champion of secularism and skepticism, since he has conclusively shown that belief in God is a vestige from an earlier, unsophisticated age...
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