REL 2001 Lecture : David Hume Notes
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Philo-skeptic, he keeps firing up demea and cleanthes: reason doesn"t give is experience for religion. Demea-piety, only faith, the adorable mysterious, love and worship god, not knowledge. If you where a true skeptic, you would question everything. Philo says no because its too big of a jump. The more you learn the more you know. We learn to come face to face with our ignorance. We see a cause and effect, and then make assumptions about the next time it happens. Cleanthes- imperial (natural religion: objects to the evolutionary concept because the world is so much better than the survival of the fittest, makes reference to the camels and horses in the desert to help guide their journey. We assume the world was made by evolution so to speak because that is what we are familiar with. Accuses cleanthes of trying to draw conclusions about the entire universe from observations made in one narrow corner thereof.
