Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Author: first_name: David
last_name: Hume
Language: English
Year: 1779

In Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, philosopher David Hume examines whether belief in God can be rational. The work takes the form of a debate between three characters: Cleanthes, who argues that the existence and nature of God can be empirically verified; Demea, who argues that God is completely beyond human knowledge; and Philo, a philosophical skeptic widely thought to represent Hume's own beliefs.<br><br> Much of the debate centers around Cleanthes' presentation of the analogical argum