Hume M Challenges

Question 1

What are laws of nature based on

Answer 1

Past experience

So we could have just misunderstood a miracle

Question 2

Four arguments against miracle

Answer 2

-Insufficient well educated witnesses
-Witnesses bias towards miracles
- tend to be observed by ignorant and barborous nations
-not all miracles from different religions can be right

Question 3

Explain insufficient witnesses of good sense education and learning

Witnesses tend to be uneducated ignorant peasantry

Answer 3

Hume only accepts evidence from intellectual sources that would have smth to lose

Question 4

Explain humans love marvels

Answer 4

Witnesses r sympathetic to idea of miracles , so more likely to describe event as miraculous

Those who witness miracles tend to want to see miracles

Question 5

Explain colonial views

Answer 5

Hume believed if u weren’t white or British u was an ignorant and barbarous man

Eg India and africa

Question 6

If miracles exist what’s this mean

Answer 6

God picking and choosing who to save

This can be seen as evil

Question 7

Explain principle of testimony

Answer 7

Experience of others probably as they report them

If we don’t accept we are reduced to radical skepticism

Question 8

Society quote

Answer 8

Society will crumble and end only when Evryone is an author