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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... characters might have meant by what they say , or seem to say , but chiefly concerned with the truth or rational support for what they , or someone , might possibly mean by the extracted and processed claims and conclusions ...
... character with words spoken by another , but also seeing how what a character says connects with what he and other agents do , with how he speaks and acts , with the dramatic setting , personal relationships , and so on . It's a ...
... conflicting interpretations . Prominent among disputed issues is the question of what beliefs Hume intended to convey and endorse through the discourses of his characters — an issue focused in the common Introduction 5.
... characters , especially when he is attacking the arguments of Cleanthes and Demea , and that Cleanthes represents him only when he is agreeing with Philo against Demea " ( Aiken 1948 , xiii ) . Most arrive at such assignment of views to ...
... character . But a good dialogue is not confined to its characters . It reaches out from its pages to ensnare the reader , who no doubt is antecedently interested in the topics but finds herself drawn into the conversation — evaluating ...
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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 |