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*[http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/dnr.htm text of David Hume, ''Dialogues concerning Natural Religion'']; see especially Parts II-VIII f

...bout the justification of the state in modern political thought (neither [[David Hume]] nor [[John Stuart Mill]] thought it necessary to engage in such an exerci

| title = David Hume and the Suppression of Atheism

{{Image|Hume2.JPG|left|200px|Statue of David Hume, on the Royal Mile.}} ...of the [[Scottish Enlightenment]], home to many great thinkers including [[David Hume]] (1711-1776) who according to RL Stevenson, "ruined Philosophy and Faith"

...lightenment]] thinkers continued with the interest, when [[John Locke]], [[David Hume]], [[Immanuel Kant]], [[Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu|Charles M

1711     [[David Hume]][http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume/] (1711-1776) ''A Treatise of Huma

...by such brilliant thinkers as [[Francis Hutcheson]], [[Adam Smith]] and [[David Hume]], paved the way for the modernization of Scotland and [[Atlantic History|t

{{Image|Hume.jpg|right|300px|Statue of [[David Hume]]. ''"Man is a reasonable being; and as such, receives from science his pro

<onlyinclude>{{Image|Hume.jpg|right|300px|Statue of [[David Hume]]. ''"Man is a reasonable being; and as such, receives from science his pro

...ity. Enlightenment thinkers like historian-philosophers [[Voltaire]] and [[David Hume]] denounced the crusades, as did the great historian of Byzantium [[Edward

...taphysics of Morals'', 42 (par. 434)</ref> Austin and Bentham, following [[David Hume]] thought this conflated what [[Is-ought problem|"is" and what "ought to be