Paul Russell on David Hume's Treatise
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The Immateriality of the Soul and the Problem of Personal Identity
Hume's skeptical arguments about cause and effect don't seem directly related to religion at all. But for Hume there's a much deeper agenda that relates to the cosmological argument. The fact that the world exists is something that demands explanation, he says.
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