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390 HUME'S THE COMEDY RELIGION Laughter the key Hume's Concerng Natural Religion. deed, I would suggest that if the have not made one laugh, if one has not experienced the sheer delight Hume's rhetical excesses gaiety, then one hasn't really Hume undersod Cleanthes th wk at all. Philo a From th perspective, the usual questions are irrelevant -- Philo? migated sceptic a Pyrrhonian? Such debates are sterile ms the pot, f however constent constent the characters may be, the text has an tention the actual drama a direction all s own, destroyg the religious hypothes not so Hume's Concerng Natural much by 'serious' calculated argument as by ridicule excess. Religion are the expression a healthy cheerful malice which strives at every turn tensify the sense the absurdy religion. Hence their flavour primarily rhetical, would be a mtake consider them as merely a collection paraphraseable pros directed agast the possibily rational theology. Th not say, however, that Hume did not take religion seriously; on the contrary, he uses all the devices comedy der overwhelm -- rather as Nietzsche was argue: "Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. ml th paper, I will consider the rhetical aspect Hume's
Hume Studies – Hume Society
Published: Jan 26, 1988
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