Religion and history

pp. 107-127

in: Miguel A. Badía Cabrera, Hume's reflection on religion, Berlin, Springer, 2001

Abstract

Does Hume present in The Natural History of Religion a unitary and coherent con­ception of history? Under the supposition that such is the case, is it the same or at least consistent with the vision of history that can be extracted from the History of England and some of his principal historical essays? These are the questions I shall attempt to answer in what follows. Let us begin with the Natural History.