Natural Theology: Or Essays on the Existence of Deity

This final major philosophical work is equally rare and important. In it Crombie launches a major attack on philosophical atheism and defends traditional proofs for God's existence. Throughout, David Hume is his principal adversary, although he argues that Hume was an atheist of convenience, not conviction. This important work's parameters match up closely with what we today call the 'philosophy of religion', and this sole edition of Crombie's work is among the first to stay within those bounds. As such it is a highly important work for the better reading of key subjects and thinkers within the Scottish Enlightenment.