Miracles: for or Against


by Andrew - Date: 2007-10-04 - Word Count: 292 Share This!

To support the idea of a miracle, Hume gives some statements or arguments, which show that yet there were not any cases or events which can be called miraculous that are happening against the laws of nature. The first argument is that history still does not know any mysterious event with the satisfactory amount of witnesses to prove it. He asks the honesty of the men the reputation they have in society. If the man has good reputation, only then it is possible to believe his testimony. Hume always asks questions that can support the idea of miracles, but there are no real answers. So it brings to the conclusion that the testimony of the miracle is impossible to find.
Many scientists and philosophers studied the beliefs of people. Hume also views all the beliefs or convictions that people accepted or not accepted. Besides, he tends to bring into disrepute by playing on the human's perception or sense of reality. He uses the words that mean the same as "excitement" to describe miracle. Even the person who can not enjoy the pleasure will still believe in a miracle, despite of the possible soundness of the miracle. He wants to say that it is very easy to make people believe in something, just using proper words. Miracles lead to such strong temptations that people can lose the sense of the faith of fantasy and truth. People have the ability to believe in real as well in unreal things and in gossips. The aspiration to know something new and unreal is the feature of the humans. Through the emotions and actions Hume tends to consider there are a lot of counterfeit miracles in spite of the fact whether the information is true or not.


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