PHIL10101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Unmoved Mover, Ontological Argument, Cosmological Argument
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Essential figure in scottish enlightenment (period during which there was a change in political, intellectual change in western europe). Idea that human reason should be the ultimate guide to life. People worried about decay of political authority. He is so empiricist that it leads him to a radical form of skepticism. People were sure this would lead to atheism. And people were pretty sure he was atheist. Hume is a skeptic about god"s existence (opposite for descartes" arguments) Arguments between natural religion and revealed religion. Study of god"s nature and existence in so far as we can discover it and explain it philosophically. Believe in personal god of abraham and genesis. Believe in a god as a creator force. There are characters with personalities and ideas. Hume notes that writing on a dialogue is weird. This frames story about 3 other characters. Philo is the skeptic, may represent hume, some ambiguity.
