Melancholy Duty : The Hume-Gibbon Attack on Christianity /

This book studies the complementary features of the thought of David Hume and Edward Gibbon in the complete range of its confrontation with eighteenth-century Christianity. The ten chapters explore the iconoclasm of these two philosophical historians - Hume as the premier philosopher, Gibbon as the...

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Main Author:	Foster, Stephen Paul
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1997.
Series:	International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idées ; 154.
Subjects:	Humanities. Philosophy, Modern. Philosophy. Political science > Philosophy. History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book