TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ryan,Todd
TI  - The innumerable ills of life: Bayle and Hume on natural evil
PY  - 2018///.
							
N1  - 14
N2  - In Part X of the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, Philo, the skeptic, joins forces with Demea, the defender of orthodox Christianity, to paint a harrowing picture of the wickedness and misery of human life. In this article I show that Hume’s source for many of the arguments of this section is a three-cornered debate between Bayle, Leibniz, and William King concerning the predominance of natural evil in human life. Moreover, I argue that Philo purposefully and maliciously exaggerates the misery of life to underscore the similarity between the orthodox Christian position and that of religious skeptics such as Bayle
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-archives-de-philosophie-2018-4-page-775?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -