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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... believe it is an ultimately rewarding one . 7 Second , an internal interpreter should inquire under the defeasible pre- supposition of unity in and of the text . One should begin by supposing that a text possesses a very high level of ...
... believe the potential rewards in a trusting approach to a classic text such as the greatest philosophi- cal dialogue in English are well worth the risks.8 Still , let me admit quite openly that a fully internal interpretation is im ...
... believe , an ideal well worth pursuing , for the following reasons . 1. Most obviously , the Dialogues has notoriously received a number of conflicting interpretations . Prominent among disputed issues is the question of what beliefs ...
... believe , but an aspect of its " artful " construc- tion ) . External interpreters usually rush over these aids , which are contained mostly in the preface ( " Pamphilus to Hermippus " ) and in Parts 1 and 12 , in their haste to get to ...
... believe the current interpretive situation can be en- riched by eliminating context — by attending solely ( so far as possible ) and carefully to the Dialogues ' own self - interpreting resources . Several general themes will emerge in ...
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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 |