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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... views and inferences drawn from the text with varying degrees of reformulation — thereby " doing philosophy " with ( and sometimes upon ! ) a text via exegesis and isogesis , drawing the text into the customary " dialectic " of late ...
... 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 what Hume's own views were , for perhaps the work does not express those views ...
... views on this heading are considerably more subtle than those per- ceived by readers such as A. J. Ayer , who claims that " Hume , without ever openly displaying his hand , intended the discerning reader to conclude that he adopted ...
... views of the principal speakers . Hermippus has formed the opinion , based on an earlier " imperfect account " of the conversations given him by Pamphilus , that Cleanthes has an " accurate philosophical turn , " Philo a " careless ...
... views expressed in the text , for a literary character can easily come to have a limited independence of its author , even when the author is temperamentally close to his creation . At any rate , we should keep in mind the multiple ...
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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 |