 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1998 - 260 pages
...the Introduction: "The whole frame of nature bespeaks an intelligent author; and no rational enquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief...primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion.' There is indeed a problem in discerning Hume's real position at the end of the Dialogues, and this... | |
 | Alfred Ayer - Philosophy - 2000 - 152 pages
...his writings, he professes to accept the argument from design. The whole frame of nature', he writes, 'bespeaks an Intelligent Author; and no rational inquirer...primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion' (G 309). This remark is not patently insincere and I have to allow for my own prejudices in taking... | |
 | Isabel Rivers - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 407 pages
...theism for granted. 'The whole frame of nature bespeaks an intelligent author; and no rational enquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief...primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion.' 'A purpose, an intention, a design is evident in every thing; and when our comprehension is so far... | |
 | Miguel A. Badía Cabrera - History - 2001 - 358 pages
...work, he asserts: The whole frame of nature bespeaks an intelligent author; and no rational enquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief...primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion (NHR, 21). Obviously, the preceding statement is not an unequivocal endorsement of the claims of historical... | |
 | David O'Connor, George Pattison - Philosophy - 2001 - 252 pages
...Hume says this: '[t]he whole frame of nature bespeaks an intelligent author: and no rational enquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief...primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion' (NHR: 134, emphasis added1. A little later on in the same book he adds that, '[t]he belief of invisible,... | |
 | Jordan Howard Sobel - Philosophy - 2003 - 676 pages
...clearest solution. The whole frame of nature bespeaks an intelligent author; and no rational enquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief...primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion. (Hume 1993. Introduction, p. 134; cf.. Part V, p. 150. Part VI, pp.153, 154). To these may be added... | |
 | James F. Sennett, Douglas Groothuis - Religion - 2005 - 337 pages
...Hume elsewhere wrote, "The whole frame of nature bespeaks an intelligent author; and no intelligent inquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his...primary principles of genuine theism and Religion." Natural History of Religion, in The Philosophical Works of David Hume, ed. TH Green and TH Grose, 4... | |
 | Brian Wicker - Religion - 2006 - 196 pages
...Edward Gibbon - endorsed this version of what happened. While, according to Hume, 'no rational enquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief...primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion', he clearly thinks that the cult of saints and martyrs is a superstitious absurdity, from which he himself... | |
 | John Clayton - Religion - 2006 - 408 pages
...whole frame of nature', he declares there, 'bespeaks an intelligent author; and no rational enquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief...regard to the primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion.'53 This belief is given here and elsewhere in the History as something impossible to doubt... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - Electronic reference sources - 2006 - 790 pages
...frame of nature bespeaks an intelligent author; and no rational enquirer can, after serious reflexion, suspend his belief a moment with regard to the primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion'. ly But there are hints here and there that this testimony should be taken with a grain of salt, and... | |
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The whole frame of nature bespeaks an Intelligent Author ; and no rational inquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief a moment with regard to the primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion. 
