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HUME'S DIALOGUES CONCERNING NATURAL RELIGION

PROFESSOR Kemp Smith in providing a new edition of Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, embodying all the author's additions and corrections, has given expression to the perennial interest and fascination which this work has possessed for many minds during the odd one hundred and fifty years since it was first published by Hume's nephew. The editor himself has performed a great service by contributing an Introduction and a clear and concise summary of the Dialogues, in both of which he expounds his own view as to how Hume's discussion is to be interpreted. Hume employs three characters-Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes; and the discussion is ostensibly reported by a youth Pamphilus, who claims to have been an onlooker at the time and who at the end

VI.—NEW BOOKS

VI.—NEW BOOKS Get access Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Edited with an Introduction by NORMAN KEMP SMITH. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935. Pp. xii, 284. 10s. 6d. net. JOHN LAIRD JOHN LAIRD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mind, Volume XLV, Issue 178, April 1936, Pages 252–255, https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/XLV.178.252 Published: 01 April 1936

Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.

PROFESSOR Kemp Smith in providing a new edition of Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, embodying all the author's additions and corrections, has given expression to the perennial interest and fascination which this work has possessed for many minds during the odd one hundred and fifty years since it was first published by Hume's nephew. The editor himself has performed a great service by contributing an Introduction and a clear and concise summary of the Dialogues, in both of which he expounds his own view as to how Hume's discussion is to be interpreted. Hume employs three characters-Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes; and the discussion is ostensibly reported by a youth Pamphilus, who claims to have been an onlooker at the time and who at the end