Reading Hume's Dialogues: A Veneration for True ReligionIndiana University Press, 13/09/2002 - 296 páginas "... 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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... author and audience alike , and deeply suspicious of the ways in which power is illegiti- mately maintained and manipulated by idealized text and idealizing authors . No doubt such suspicion is often " rewarded " by finding exactly what ...
... author's views but rather to provoke readers into ex- amining their own views . Further , there are textual puzzles aplenty quite apart from discovering what Hume believed , or intended , in the text . For instance , there are the fa ...
... author ) . In short , in a dialogue , rhetoric of all kinds is no mere window dressing but is vital to structure , content , and meaning . Further , not only what is said ( in all a dialogue's ways of saying ) needs to be taken into ...
... Author of Na- ture must be consonant with living harmoniously with others , realizing hu- man capacity , and fulfilling human aspiration . They both seek , in their diver- gent ways , to make natural religious thinking ( " theology ...
... Parts 2-8 , Cleanthes introduces an a posteriori argument from the world's " design " to the " hypothesis " of the " Being " of an " Author of Nature ” with certain " natural " attributes ( chiefly intelligence and Scene-Setting.
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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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