Friday, April 18, 2008
Hume "God II"
So I was reading the "of the Idea of Necessary Connexion" chapter and the example that Hume gave about the billard ball came up in this chapter. This is the example that we spoke of in class. Hume said that when the you hit the first ball into the second that since God made the laws for the world, that God is actually moving the ball and this is a violation of his own law because although "we" are moving the ball in one way.. it is really gravity and force that is moving it, and force and gravity must have been created by God since he created all the laws. I saw this as a very odd way of looking at this. Hume says on page 47, "When we voluntarily turn our thoughts to any object, and raise up its image in the fancy, it is not the will which createst that idea: It is the univeral Creator, who discovers it to the mind, and renders it present to us."
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