" Aiding the Ascent of Reason by the Wings of Imagination": The Prospect of a Future State

Hume Studies 25 (1):193-205 (1999)
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In this paper, I will focus on two sections of otherwise extensively studied Humean texts that have received little or no attention in the scholarly literature. A substantial part of Part 12 of the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and Section XI of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding—also written in dialogue form—are concerned with similar doctrines: that the prospect of a future state, or afterlife, acts as the motivating influence on our earthly moral behaviour.

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10.1353/hms.1999.a385513

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