Reading Hume's Dialogues: A Veneration for True ReligionIndiana University Press, 2002. szept. 13. - 296 oldal "... establishes the literary and philosophical greatness of the Dialogues in ways that even its warmest admirers have been unable to do before." In this lively reading of David Hume's Dialogues concerning Natural Religion, William Lad Sessions reveals a complex internal hermeneutic that gives new form, structure, and meaning to the work. Linking situations, character, style, and action to the philosophical concepts presented, Sessions finds meaning contained in the work itself and calls attention to the internal connections between plot, character, rhetoric, and philosophy. The result avoids the main preoccupation of previous commentaries, namely, the attempt to establish which of the main characters speaks for Hume. Concentrating on previously unexplored questions of piety and theology, Sessions asks important questions in the philosophy of religion today -- what is the nature of true religion, what is the relationship between theology and piety, and how should we actively engage with God? |
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... argu- ment into " regular form . " From the outset , this text stoutly resisted my efforts to extract neat summaries , clean - cut positions , and exact arguments . Later on , when I began using Hume's text in my philosophy of religion ...
... argu- ment made its impact not only on Cleanthes but also on philosophers of re- ligion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries , even if it did not have , pace Penelhum , " the effect of destroying a whole tradition of theological ...
... argu- ment , focusing first on where to stop in finding the causes of nature ( 4.5-14 ) . In Part 5 , a second inconvenience is raised — that one can't infer infinite or perfect attributes ( 5.1-12 ) —with a weak reply by Cleanthes ...
... argu- ments , and surely literary unity would be endangered by a plurality of au- thors . Nevertheless , Hume's " thought " in this letter of 1751 does indicate that he was struggling to imaginatively fashion his Dialogues that he was ...
... argu- ment ) ; or the speakers alter their roles ( now on the attack , now defending ; now allied with one , now with another ) . Then there may be equal reason for saying either that a new dialogue begins or that the old dialogue ...
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11 | |
Pamphilus to Hermippus | 30 |
75 | 108 |
87 | 147 |
Part 11 | 164 |
Part 12 | 182 |
Conclusion | 207 |
LIST OF SOURCES | 261 |
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Reading Hume's Dialogues: A Veneration for True Religion William Lad Sessions Korlátozott előnézet - 2002 |
Reading Hume's Dialogues: A Veneration for True Religion William Lad Sessions Korlátozott előnézet - 2002 |