Analysis Of John Hume The Obsession Of Misery And Their Causes

The Obsession of Misery and Their Causes

The position of God and misery is a quite difficult position. Hume the author of this book wanted to show that not everything has to involve a God and it is not reasonable to do so. Hume’s characters resemble points that generally describe opinions of the general population of the Earth. With this he is able to create a dialogue that all people can relate to. But his intention of this book is not to support all opinions but his own.

In the beginning of part 10, Dema’s inputs who people are in the since the people are miserable and weak so they seek God for protection. Demea and Philo are then discussion who is God and what is misery. With the complications Demea runs into with her arguments Philo sympathizes

When responding to Demea’s comment he states that this is just conjecture and superstition or witchery. There is no visible evidence to show us things are happening and these these can never be tested for there truth in their argument. He then continues to Philo’s argument were he mentions God’s altruism or perfect benevolence. This meaning he is selfless nature, but one would then have to deny the argument. Meaning ridding of the despair. Why are we concerned about what we cannot judge when we in turn cannot even judge ourselves? He is trying to say hear that how could you do something you have not even experienced. You had no prior knowledge to do such things or know such things. He then formulates an argument: Saying if one would focus not only misery you would view then good. Saying that there is not only misery in the world it seems we as people only focus on the bad. But if we take a chance to look at happy thoughts it wouldn’t be a miserable world. Then stating there is more good in the world, then we would not focus on the bad things but the good things as well. Like a scale if you were the measure the good and misery in the world. Goodness severely outranks the bad. Concluding, we feel both misery and good as a whole in being a human being. Meaning we are not one without the other. Like ying and yang. You must have the good part of a human as well as one the can experience the bad things or it is no human at

They want a reason why this is cause. These people need to learn this is a part of life and people experience both good and bad. Then we should not blame God for this because he cares and is all powerful. More of focus on the meaning of life and that it is perfectly natural to go through such things. Then in the end concluding through all this that it is the person’s actions that create the misery and thru the obsession of the misery that causes the real issue. And if one were to accept blame on themselves and experience good for what it is we would all live a happy life weather there is a God or not. But in totlat Hue was a great writers and presented all of the questions todays society would have and still disproved them all. It was an amazing read and very valuable