Hume's Rhetorical Strategy: Three Views

In the Fragment on Evil, Hume announces that he ‘shall not employ any rhetoric in a philosophical argument, where reason alone ought to be hearkened to’. To rhetorical strategy, context of Fragment, just is ‘enumerate all evils, incident human life, and display them, with eloquence, their proper colours’. However, Part 11 Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, employs precisely this strategy. I discuss three interpretations might account for Hume's decision strategy but Fragment. The heart discussion concerns relationship between rhetoric. can understood as part education Pamphilus. Consequently, align ways understanding roles play views pedagogy (or more specifically, Philo's attitude towards Pamphilus).