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David Hume on the Dialogues
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In the Dialogues, Hume speaks only through his characters. In an exchange of letters with Gilbert Elliot, a friend and devout church elder, Hume both asks for help in strengthening Cleanthes’ side, claiming he burned a youthful work on natural religion, and comments on the arguments in the Dialogues. This chapter comments on Hume’s remarks to Elliot, alluding to relevant passages in the Treatise and Enquiry, particularly regarding cause and effect. The chapter concludes with Hume’s words echoing those concluding the Dialogues: “There is more Satisfaction & Convenience in holding to the Catechism we have been first taught. Now this I have nothing to say against. … Such a Conduct is founded on the most universal & determn’d Scepticism, join’d to a little Indolence.”
Title: David Hume on the Dialogues
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In the Dialogues, Hume speaks only through his characters.
In an exchange of letters with Gilbert Elliot, a friend and devout church elder, Hume both asks for help in strengthening Cleanthes’ side, claiming he burned a youthful work on natural religion, and comments on the arguments in the Dialogues.
This chapter comments on Hume’s remarks to Elliot, alluding to relevant passages in the Treatise and Enquiry, particularly regarding cause and effect.
The chapter concludes with Hume’s words echoing those concluding the Dialogues: “There is more Satisfaction & Convenience in holding to the Catechism we have been first taught.
Now this I have nothing to say against.
… Such a Conduct is founded on the most universal & determn’d Scepticism, join’d to a little Indolence.
”.
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