Hume's Pragmaticist Argument for the Reality of God

Authors

Hermann Deuser
Dennis Beach OSB, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1995

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | Philosophy

Abstract

"Although it is still widely held that the history of proofs of God came to an end with Kant and Hume, or, in any event, that the power of their arguments was undone, this opinion has meanwhile itself become an anachronism. The new interest in the proofs of God, pursued avidly especially in English-language philosophy of religion for some decades now, documents not only a quite surprising interest in this classical topos of the philosophical tradition, but above all, the necessity of this thematic issue for theology and philosophy of religion."

Comments

Article by Hermann Deuser; translated by Dennis Beach, OSB.

Recommended Citation

Deuser, Hermann, and Dennis Beach. "Hume's Pragmaticist Argument for the Reality of God." The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 9, no. 1 (1995): 1-13. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25670126.