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The question I have been requested to consider is whether the ‘true religion’ espoused by Philo in Book XII of Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion should be regarded either as the minimal religious belief that rational enquiry permits or the ‘useless rump’ that remains when the rest of religion, rightly or wrongly, has been dispensed with.
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Harvey, V.A. (1999). Is There Anything Religious about Philo’s ‘True Religion’?. In: Phillips, D.Z., Tessin, T. (eds) Religion and Hume’s Legacy. Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27735-3_5
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