... external reality, that there were universal truths and universal laws that human involvement was not necessary for reality to exist. Believers in PHYSIS said that there was one truth, one definition of what it means to be just or beautiful, and that these one truth and standards existed in the world and were just waiting to be discovered by humans. In other ... conversations (piety, virtue, beauty, courage, etc.). To some extent, Socrates is adopting a pose in order to get the dialectic rolling -- to prompt his interlocutor to propose a definition of virtue, piety, etc. But on the other...

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... ? Has the Design Argument been forever altered by Hume? Can it render service in post-Hume discussions? These are the questions we should confront. David Hume's philosophy of religion is fatal to the natural revelation of Deism. His arguments the camp of unbelief have appropriated. It is an argument against any inductive proof for God's existence. What Hume seeks to show is the failure ... 's purpose is to vitiate the Argument from Design more completely, and to this end he skillfully balances his words among the protagonists; to let the currency of his argument fall upon the shoulders of...

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