R. Paul: "'Was Hume an atheist?' is one of its most intriguing questions.
I'm sorry to post this so late; it's probably past midnight in Memphis."
Grice's first tutee as he became the philosophy don at St. John's (of all
colleges -- they all bear such religious names, because they were monasteries,
in this case, a Cistercian one) was A. G. N. Flew, was was an atheist. But
then, rather than learning from Grice, Flew would cross St. Giles's, and spend
most of the time at "The Bird and Baby", a renowned pub. Flew remained an
atheist for a long time -- and he wrote on Hume. But eventually, he came to
realise that all he had thought was wrong, and that he now WAS SEEING THE
LIGHT.
It is a pity that Hume's tutor was NOT Grice!
(Flew was perhaps being an atheist because he admired Lord Russell, another
one!)
How clever language is!
Cheers,
Speranza
