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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... external , historical links to the text , ignoring or dismissing its internal dynamics . Gradually I came to two realizations : First , there is great need of a com- prehensive treatment of the Dialogues — for some reason or other ...
... external interpretations ; they seek to understand a text by means of tools that are not given by the text itself but rather drawn from other sources . External interpretations doubtless shed some light on the Dialogues , but this light ...
... external witnesses . In addition , no text can be entirely self - contained . Not only will it nor- mally refer to particulars in the world by means of proper names or definite descriptions , but the very words and grammar it employs ...
... external interpretations interested in questions of Hume's owner- ship of the views expressed in the Dialogues . It is always possible that , even when we have understood this text's intentions , we will still be unable to de- termine ...
... external approaches . At any rate , if readers more accustomed to external in- terpretations will but suspend judgment for the duration , they may be sur- prised at the self - clarification of Hume's text . 2. The Dialogues is an ...
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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 |