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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... seeks to situate Hume's thought and writings within its eighteenth - century Scottish social and intellectual con- text . Of course , this context is itself usually more or less restricted to other writings by Hume ; to Hume's life ; to ...
... seek to understand a text by means of tools that are not given by the text itself but rather drawn from other ... Seek and you will find " but rather " Seek or you will not find " —seeking unity is a necessary , not a sufficient ...
... seek rather to ferret out a text's unwitting contradictions and hidden disunities so that text , author , and unsuspecting ... seeks , and perhaps the discontinuities and inconsistencies require suspicion to be noticed at all . Yet a ...
... seeks to ground its interpretations in the text of the Dialogues , it is not unmindful of the cloud of external witnesses . In addition , no text can be entirely self - contained . Not only will it nor- mally refer to particulars in the ...
... seek to discover how far the text's own proffered terms of self - understanding can be applied to itself . 18 4. We must remember that the Dialogues is , after all , a set of dialogues.17 Readers familiar with Plato's Dialogues will ...
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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 |