1736 1ed FAMOUS Joseph Butler Analogy of Religion Philosophy Existence of GOD



“The most original and profound work extant in any language on the philosophy of religion.”

– Sir James Mackintosh on Analogy



Joseph Butler was one of the most important English religious apologists in the early 18th-century, who is most remembered for influencing philosophers such as David Hume and Adam Smith. These famed thinkers were known to have read and studied Butler’s ‘Analogy of Religion’, which according to a number of historians, was the chief Christian work against non-believers. In this work, Butler argues that nature provides sufficient evidence for God as an intelligent designer.



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BUTLER, Joseph



The analogy of religion, natural and revealed, to the constitution and course of nature. To which are added two brief dissertations: I. Of personal identity. II. Of the nature of virtue



London : Printed for James, John and Paul Knapton, 1736. First edition.



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Collation: Complete with all pages:

[12], x, 320

References: Printing and the Mind of Man 193; Grolier English 44; ESTC T 06797;

PMM: “Butler's was an empirical approach, similar to Hume's, but he held that philosophic scepticism should not entail religious scepticism. Assuming, as the deists were prepared to, that God is the author of nature, there are no contradictions, obscurities or improbabilities in religious doctrine different in kind from those encountered in science. Thus the religious order and the scientific order are similar in nature, and both show the working of the Supreme Creator.”

Language: English

Binding: Leather; tight & secure

Size: ~10.25in X 8.25in (26cm x 21cm)



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