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Paulette Carrive, « La notion de naturalisme, ou Warburton contre Bolingbroke et Hume », Dix-Huitième Siècle, ID : 10.3406/dhs.1992.1879
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The notion of naturalism, or Warburton against Bolingbroke and Hume. The first important occurrence of the term naturalism is to be found in a letter from Warburton to Richard Hurd, Bishop of Worcester, in 1738. With this new term, Warburton is condemning the thought of both Bolingbroke and Hume. He is referring to a theological system that recognizes only the physical attributes, not the moral attributes, of God. The accusation of "naturalism" is as serious as that of "Spinozism". In addition, in his Remarks on the Natural History of Religion, Warburton accuses Hume of insinuating that religion originates in the imagination and the passions, in other words in what Hume understands by "origin in human nature".