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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... course on Hume from James Dickoff and Patricia James , while also strug- gling , along with fellow graduate student ... courses , I en- countered new complications on every page , and I began to think more and more of how the " literary ...
... course bear no responsibility for the errors and problems that remain . I am most grateful for their wonderful assistance and encouragement . Ed Craun , Ben Eggleston , and Jack Wilson read earlier versions of the entire manuscript and ...
... course , this context is itself usually more or less restricted to other writings by Hume ; to Hume's life ; to those persons , books , and ideas that influenced Hume ; or to those about whom or to whom Hume wrote . But in principle ...
... course , many would regard a merely inter- nal interpretation of the Dialogues as confining and reactionary , a naive ab- straction , suspect politically , an impossible ideal , a return in these deconstruc- tive days to the discredited ...
... course of this reading . First , the Dialogues possesses much more coherence and unity , as well as richer com- plexity and perplexity , than has often been supposed . Of course , since an internal interpretive approach initially ...
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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 |