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: We have three main points here... two questions need to be asked... : 1. Are these really the essential points in Hume's article? : 2. How do we qualify the third point? : The Argument from Evil : David Hume : : 1st point: Because of imbecility and misery, we tend to depend on God, on the being : Supports: : · Main support of 1st point: since everyone lives in misery, everyone depends on God (Deity) : o A sense of religion emerges because of the just representations of misery and wickedness of man : o Human’s experiences are better/more than enough compared to reasoning an argument : o Negative phenomena (evil) is so widespread that everyone pes through it : § There is already anguish for the new-born infant and his life will also end up in agony and horror : o Negative things are very proverbial in all languages : o Every animal is surrounded by enemies which seek his misery and destruction : § Ex: insects that prey on human… but there are also smaller things that prey the insects and make life miserable for them : § But man is an exception to this rule : § Man can be the master over all the animals, but he is haunted by imaginary enemies – demons of fancy : o Man is the greatest enemy of man : § Oppression, injustice, violence, sedition, war, treachery, fraud : o The problem of anxiety, misery is from within ourselves, our minds : § The disorders of the mind, though more secret, are not perhaps less dismal and vexatious : § Good example: poor are abundant and they greatly suffer and miserable in their lives. But the rich, though they have everything, never get to be satisfied. They keep wanting for more. : o Man always complain about the miseries of life : o so if in misery, why not die?... because also afraid of death : o even the most prosperous complain of misery : § ex: Charles V : · all prosperities have been mixed with adversities that there was never satisfaction and contentment : 2nd point: God wills everything. Man is not happy. Therefore, God wills him to be unhappy : o there is a strange mixture of phenomena, of good and evil : o you can’t tell which is more, evil or goodness? : o A small amount of misery can last for months or even years and even presents more agony and as time flies by : o What’s the solution? : o Take out the cause of misery : o But the cause itself (evil) is indeed more terrifying : o According to Philo (Hume), one cannot compare pleasure and pain. This would just add confusion and uncertainty of religion… : § Religion springs fort only when there is no evil and allow happiness of human life : o The heaviness of happiness and misery in the word can not be proven because these subjects (or this subject) exceeds all of human capacity : 3rd point: Philo (Hume): evil, misery, and pain, is part of the infinite power and goodness in the Deity (God)

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