David Hume
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Prelude: Hume's death
  • 2 From enlightenment to romanticism
    • 2.1 Working through the section
  • 3 The intellectual background
    • 3.1 Introduction
    • 3.2 Empiricism
    • 3.3 Deism
    • 3.4 Proving God's existence
  • 4 Hume on life after death
    • 4.1 Why was our immortality an issue?
    • 4.2 Moral grounds for thinking we are immortal
    • 4.3 Physical grounds for thinking we are immortal
  • 5 Hume on suicide
    • 5.1 The reception of Hume's views
    • 5.2 Philosophy, religion and everyday life
    • 5.3 Do we have a duty to God not to commit suicide?
    • 5.4 Assessing Hume's views
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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