TY - JOUR ID - 69991 TI - Richard Swinburne's Response to David Hume's Criticisms of Miracle JO - Philosophy of Religion JA - JPHT LA - en SN - 2008-7063 AU - Jafari, Hossein AU - Fathalikhani, Mohammad AD - Master's Holder in the Philosophy of Religion, Baqir al-Olum University, Qom, Iran AD - Assistant Professor, Research Institute of Hawzeh and University, Qom, Iran Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 15 IS - 4 SP - 937 EP - 960 KW - Miracle KW - David Hume KW - Richard Swinburne KW - Violation of natural laws DO - 10.22059/jpht.2018.239083.1005492 N2 - An argument that has been used for long to prove the correctness of the prophets' claims or even at times to prove the existence of God is miracle. However, the conditions that give miracle such a power to prove its claim or more basically the phenomenon that can be proved by miracle are topics that have not been gone unnoticed by the skeptic, empiricist view of David Hume. In response, Richard Swinburne has tried to answer these criticisms to defend Christianity and natural theology. With regard to the fact that it was from 17th century – that is, after Hume – that the notion of violating the natural laws was imported into the definition of miracle and Swinburne himself stipulates that Hume also believed in this definition of miracle and in fact considered it as the key point in the definition of miracle, the review of the opinions of these two philosophers will be worthwhile. After the presentation of the opinions of both philosophers, the article at hand evaluates them to see whose ideas are more acceptable by Islam. UR - https://jpht.ut.ac.ir/article_69991.html L1 - https://jpht.ut.ac.ir/article_69991_a00fa4294456feff3c6d781c632ee89b.pdf ER -