The main objective of the article presented below is to demonstrate the restrictive and insufficient nature Hume has regarding the study of the religious phenomenon, specifically, faith understood as a mere superstition. Since Hume's position is characterized by reducing general knowledge to the sense perceptual experience, therefore, religion would not be enough to establish itself as a knowledge in the strict sense. In order to demonstrate the inadequacy of the Humean analysis, it will be contrasted with the disposition presented by the figure of the illustrated in the Phenomenology of the Spirit (G.W. Hegel), since the character presented by the Enlightenment partially underlies Hume's perspective regarding the understanding of faith. Consequently, it will be extracted that it is not possible to understand the religious experience from an enlightened or scientific position, because its method of study recognizes only empirically traceable elements.
Keywords:
faith, superstition, enlightenment, realm of errors
Author Biography
Margarita Cabrera Cabrera, Universidad de Chile
Magistranda en Filosofía en la Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Licenciada en Filosofía por la Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Cabrera Cabrera, M. (2020). Superstition in Hume from a Hegelian reading: a restrictive analysis. Resonancias. Revista De Filosofía, (7), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-790X.2019.56223
