Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 13 original MP3 tracks, 4:01:57 running time and a link to listen.
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, credited to David Hume, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
A LibriVox recording of Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, by David Hume. Read by Leon Mire. In Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, philosopher David Hume examines whether belief in God can be rational. The work takes the form of a debate between three characters: Cleanthes, who argues that the existence and nature of God can be empirically verified; Demea, who argues that God is completely beyond human knowledge; and Philo, a philosophical skeptic widely thought to represent Hume's own beliefs. Much of the debate centers around Cleanthes' presentation of the analogical argument from design. According to this argument, the complexity and beauty of the universe can only be explained by inferring an intelligent designer, in the same way that one would infer a designer if one came across an intricately complicated machine. Philo presents several objections to this argument, with rejoinders by Cleanthes and occasional interjections by Demea. (Summary by Leon Mire)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
- Author credits: David Hume
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 13
- Listed recording duration: 4:01:57
Catalogue topics
- religion
- philosophy
Track guide
- Part 00 - Preface — 5:33
- Part 01 — 23:48
- Part 02 — 27:56
- Part 03 — 13:20
- Part 04 — 15:21
- Part 05 — 14:01
- Part 06 — 13:38
- Part 07 — 13:54
- Part 08 — 14:22
- Part 09 — 11:32
- Part 10 — 24:47
- Part 11 — 27:32
- Part 12 — 36:20
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