triangular arguments // hannah schofield

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Howdy, fellas!
Lets discuss Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume, shall we?
I racked my brain for things I would want to talk about for this blog, but, alas, my easily-distracted couldn't move away from the three characters and their individual qualities.
Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes.
For starters, we had Demea. He didn't trust or rely on reason, he relied on the faith that God exists.
Second, we had Philo. He mainly acted as a mediator between the other two charcaters and critiqued their arguments. Otherwise, he did believe that God existed and wondered what type of attributes God had.
Third, there was Cleanthes. He believed that the design of the universe obviously proved that there was a God.
After considering their standpoints, I was taken with Cleanthes's arguments immediately. Actually, last semster, my math professor spent an entire day showing us examples of how God shows himself through nature. He showed us multiple images and configurations that had us all gasping and wondering how we ever doubted His presence.
I'm curious though.
Who would you side with if it came down to it? Which corner of the triangle are you choosing?

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Sydney Snow said…
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October 7, 2019 at 9:34 PM
Sydney Snow said…
I myself would side with Cleanthes, too. If you just look outside you can see evidence of God and his design. Beauty such as that does not just appear, it has to be made, like a beautiful work of art. I think it is human nature to choose an angle rather than a side. The angle of Cleanthes and Philo. As christians, we see the beauty of the world around us, but we also have all been guilty of wondering about what God is like. People normally don't just come out and say it, but I believe everyone has wondered about it before at least as a child.
October 7, 2019 at 9:50 PM
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