Cultivating Our Garden

In Fritz Allhoff & Dan O'Brien (eds.), Gardening ‐ Philosophy for Everyone. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 192–203 (2010-09-24)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Candide Hume and Common Life Gardens and Tranquility Notes.

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cultivating our garden ‐ David Hume on gardening, a form of therapy   gardens, having metaphysical and theological significance   English picturesque tradition, rejecting formal approach ‐ laying out of gardens to precise geometric rules   Voltaire's Candide ‐ as a parody of religion and of religious apologies, existence of evil in the world   Hume, suspicious of metaphysics ‐ hostile towards an organized religion   Hume's Natural History of Religion ‐ naturalistic account of religious belief   Plato, and the world of experience ‐ akin to shadows on cave walls, as shadows of real things in Platonic Heaven   gardening, a sort of pursuit ‐ aiding immersion in common life, inculcating epistemic virtues   artisan, sophisticated grasp of induction ‐ kitchen gardener, poor harvest due to cucumber mosaic virus or spider mites   gardens and tranquility ‐ relation between garden and tranquility

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