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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... simply because it offers the first thorough and detailed commentary upon the Dialogues as a whole . It also presents a distinctive , though somewhat unfashionable , kind of interpretation of Hume's text — what I will call an internal ...
... simply brackets such issues , seeking instead to determine more closely what the Dialogues says on its own terms . But in another sense the present interpretation may serve as a prole- gomenon to external interpretations interested in ...
... simply to convey abstract propositions but to further other ends as well , often producing effects unintended by the speaker ( if not , perhaps , by an " artful " author ) . In short , in a dialogue , rhetoric of all kinds is no mere ...
... simply made a typographical error ? No ; over twenty - five years of writing and rewriting , the title is always " Dialogues " and never " A Dialogue . " 4 It is also a mistake to think of the Dialogues as compris- ing only one dialogue ...
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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 |