 | David Hume (May 7, 1711 - August 25, 1776) on Religious Belief and Damnation(published by RevoltSource) |
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Scottish Enlightenment Philosopher, Historian, Economist, Librarian and Essayist, as well as Philosophical Empiricist, Skeptic, and Naturalist
: Generally regarded as one of the most important philosophers to write in English, David Hume (1711?1776) was also well known in his own time as an historian and essayist. (From: Plato.Stanford.edu.)
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Quote #5 on Religious Struggle Quotes >> Religious Belief and Damnation
“Punishment, according to our conceptions, should bear some proportion to the offense. Why then eternal punishment for the temporary offenses of so frail a creature as man?... Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float between vise and virtue.”
Source: "Essays Moral, Political, and Literary," by David Hume, edited by Liberty Fund, 1777, with a forward by Eugene F. Miller, 1 October 1984. Section: The Life of David Hume, Esq. Part III. Essay X. Of the Immortality of the Soul.
"Essays Moral, Political, and Literary," by David Hume, edited by Liberty Fund, 1777, with a forward by Eugene F. Miller, 1 October 1984. Section: The Life of David Hume, Esq.
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