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Hume's Seneca Reference in Dialogues 12: An Assessment of Alternatives
- Hume Studies
- Hume Society
- Volume 38, Number 1, April 2012
- pp. 101-104
- 10.1353/hms.2012.0004
- Article
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In section 12 of the Dialogues, Hume claimed, without reference, that Seneca had written that to know God is to worship him. His source has proven hard to find. This note identifies some possibilities and argues in favour of one of them—one that has not been recognized by recent editors of the Dialogues.