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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... equally generous with thought- ful criticism when I presented parts of my project to their annual meetings in 1998 and 2001. An undergraduate seminar in the spring of 1998 worked through a draft alongside Hume's text , and I benefited ...
... equally youthful friend Hermippus . In his prefatory comments to Hermippus , Pamphilus explains why dialogues1 are especially appropriate to the topic at hand and mentions Hermippus's views of the principal speakers . Hermippus has ...
... equally likely / unlikely , to wit : ( 1 ) God is the soul of the world . ( 6.2-6 ) ; ( 2 ) order is inherent to the world ( 6.12-13 ) ; ( 3 ) the world originates by generation or vegetation ( 7.1-15 ) ; ( 4 ) the world was spun from a ...
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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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