Book · 1779 · Nonfiction

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Name: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Author: David Hume

Hackett Pub. · 125 pages

★ 7.2 editorial score

Three friends argue over whether the order of the world proves a designer. Philo grants the comparison, then dismantles it, asking why a competent god would build this much suffering into the machine.

Genre

Philosophy Philosophical dialogue

Subject

Existence of God Religion

Time

1779Depicts Age of Enlightenment

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