naa a22 4500 51075323X CHVBK 20180411083112.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11841-013-0372-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11841-013-0372-2 Kraal Anders Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, 1866 Main Mall, E370, V6T 1Z1, Vancouver, BC, Canada aut Philo's Argument from Evil in Hume's Dialogues X: A Semantic Interpretation [Elektronische Daten] [Anders Kraal] Philo's argument from evil in a much-discussed passage in Part X of Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion (1779) has been interpreted in three main ways: as a logical argument from evil, as an evidential argument from evil, and as an argument against natural theology's inference of a benevolent and merciful God from the course of the world. I argue that Philo is not offering an argument of any of these sorts, but is arguing that there is a radical disanalogy between the meanings of terms like ‘merciful' and ‘benevolent' when applied to God and human beings respectively. Drawing on the new ‘Irreligious Interpretation' of Hume's philosophy developed by Paul Russell (2002, 2008), I suggest that the underlying aim of Philo's argument appears to be to show, in opposition to Christian teaching, that these terms, when applied to God, are in effect meaningless. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 The problem of evil nationallicence Arguments from evil nationallicence David Hume nationallicence Sophia Springer Netherlands 52/4(2013-12-01), 573-592 0038-1527 52:4<573 2013 52 11841 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-013-0372-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-013-0372-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kraal Anders Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, 1866 Main Mall, E370, V6T 1Z1, Vancouver, BC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Sophia Springer Netherlands 52/4(2013-12-01), 573-592 0038-1527 52:4<573 2013 52 11841 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer