tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133078502277941061.post83985011539699572..comments2023-07-18T08:00:22.009-05:00Comments on Steinblog: Divine Omniscience and Human FreedomUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133078502277941061.post-80495760129069820632013-10-11T14:35:03.312-05:002013-10-11T14:35:03.312-05:00What I think Hume's "Dialogues Concerning...What I think Hume's "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion" reveals - what any dialogue is supposed to reveal - are the dispositions of the participants. All but every argument you might have thought possible is given in an engaged discussion between Philo and Cleanthes on the matter of evidence for God. Demea, with no stomach for any of this, injects a few platitudes, leaves and returns, almost as if the first and foremost thing on his mind is "what's taking the pizza so long?" Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3133078502277941061.post-13797034842099014292013-10-10T21:40:39.406-05:002013-10-10T21:40:39.406-05:00I've opined at length on these thought experim...I've opined at length on these thought experiments. These really amount to deism; albeit, without the impulse of "something had to create all this", or "intuition suggests a prime mover". Hume's "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion", published posthumously, by, I believe, his nephew, is the most probing enquiry I am aware of on this topic. It's a dialogue between Philo, the atheist sceptic; Demea, the deist; and Cleanthes, the theologian. Demea's input surfaces now and again in an effort to reveal three distinct dispositions from the matter. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com