The Natural History of Religion (Illustrated and Bundled with Autobiography by David Hume)

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1. The Natural History of Religion – David Hume

2. My Own Life – David Hume

David Hume was a Scottish historian, philosopher, and economist in the row with the greatest thinkers Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, John Keynes, John Locke, and Alfred Marshall.  Their thoughts had strong influence on building the foundation of the United States and its endeavor of open society.

David Hume in the book The Natural History of Religion gave a powerful discussion about the causes, effects, and historical development of religious belief. He argued that the origins of religion in emotion to control the future. He further argued that monotheism was from competition between religions and the monotheist led to dominate other beliefs and to burnish the emotional core of religion. Hume concluded in the book that the monotheist also generated intolerance, intellectual dishonesty, and unnatural moral doctrines.

Hume’s works also produced great influence on utilitarianism, logical positivism, the philosophy of science, early analytic philosophy, and cognitive philosophy.

David Hume’ influence has been felt in nearly every field of the humanities and social sciences.

The reasoning by David Hume still remains as relevant today as it was then.   This book is one of the most important ones about the deepest thoughts of political economics, emotional core of religion, and the competition between religions by David Hume, one of the greatest thinkers of modern economics and logic on the planet.