David Hume Of Miracles: Skeptical Empiricism vs. Supernaturalism and Religious Faith (Philosophy and Christianity)

Hume's Critique of Supernaturalism as a Basis for Human Knowledge

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David Hume'sOf Miracles Is a Succinct Critique of Religious Faith and Supernaturalism
Drawn from David Hume's longer treatise on empiricism, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, this shorter philosophical essay, Of Miracles, is a powerful and succinct critique of religious faith and supernaturalism. It is filled with memorable maxims:

1. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.
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3. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possible be imagined.
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5. When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened.

This edition is drawn from the 1777 edition of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. The preface by D. S. Dorius provides a general overview of Hume's philosophy and of the overall themes of this essay.
Of Miracles provides an excellent introduction to the skeptical empiricism of David Hume, who was without doubt one of the most important and influential philosophers of the modern era.