The term epistemology is the theory of knowledge of how it is attained and confirmed, and it is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion. One of the most influential philosophers of epistemology is David Hume. He is also a skeptic who believes that many people are conceived by the things they think they know which fails them to perceive the truth. In the following, I will be explaining about how Hume argue against religion using objection to the cosmological argument, argument from design or the teleological argument, and ontological argument.
To begin with some brief history of David Hume, Hume is one of the greatest philosophers who believe there is more depth to what lies beyond the mind so-called knowledge. Hume was born in Edinburg in 1711 to a poor family. He went to the …show more content…
He is convinced that if the world is created then it is also possible that it could be done by many gods rather than a God, next is that because the world and the creations are not perfect, there must be something lacking with the God himself and the last argument is that the existence of evil when the God is known to be all good. One of the example Hume used was, if we see a house then we know that there is an architect behind it although we have never seen or told that there was an architect who builds this because of our prior knowledge of having been seen to architects structuring and the results are the houses we live in. But, to compare the example to the universe is impossible because of its greatness and its complexity. Humans have never witnessed in their lives of seeing God creating the universe and the world. For this reason, Hume argues that human cannot simply make an assumption that God is the creator of the
To begin with some brief history of David Hume, Hume is one of the greatest philosophers who believe there is more depth to what lies beyond the mind so-called knowledge. Hume was born in Edinburg in 1711 to a poor family. He went to the …show more content…
He is convinced that if the world is created then it is also possible that it could be done by many gods rather than a God, next is that because the world and the creations are not perfect, there must be something lacking with the God himself and the last argument is that the existence of evil when the God is known to be all good. One of the example Hume used was, if we see a house then we know that there is an architect behind it although we have never seen or told that there was an architect who builds this because of our prior knowledge of having been seen to architects structuring and the results are the houses we live in. But, to compare the example to the universe is impossible because of its greatness and its complexity. Humans have never witnessed in their lives of seeing God creating the universe and the world. For this reason, Hume argues that human cannot simply make an assumption that God is the creator of the