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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... criticism when I presented parts of my project to their annual meetings in 1998 and 2001. An undergraduate seminar in the spring of 1998 worked through a draft alongside Hume's text , and I benefited from comments by Jeremy Adams ...
... critics ) , while the historicist tradition tethers a text to its contempo- rary situation or personal , social , or historical antecedents ( interpreting its meaning in terms of what went before , like new - historicist critics ) . It ...
... Criticism of the ' 40s and ' 50s . I wish to dispute all these disparaging suspicions and to suggest contrariwise that the Dialogues is well - suited , perhaps uniquely suited , to an internal hermeneutical approach . Such an approach ...
... critics of the text , a scholarly community . I have there- fore sought to take account of the billowing secondary literature on Hume's Dialogues , in part to learn from it ( even , and perhaps especially , when I dis- agree with it ) ...
... criticism , but in Part 12 he not once but thrice declares his ( indeed everyone's ! ) adher- ence to this centerpiece of natural theology . How is his apparent about - face to be explained , particularly if , as most commentators ...
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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 |