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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... rather " Seek or you will not find " —seeking unity is a necessary , not a sufficient , condition for finding unity . Further , the injunction to seek unity can surely be misused or abused , particularly if it Introduction 3.
... Further , there are textual puzzles aplenty quite apart from discovering what Hume believed , or intended , in the text . For instance , there are the fa- mous worries over Philo's apparent " reversal " in Part 12. For most of the pre ...
... further extensive revisions in 1776 , the year of his death . Moreover , Hume was a model stylist in his own age . From these facts , I draw two boundary conditions for inter- preters of the Dialogues : At the minimum , we should not ...
... 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 window dressing but is vital to structure ...
... further levels of complexity . Plato's Dialogues , for example , sometimes begin abruptly and supply their own context as the conversation unfolds ( Meno , Gorgias ) , but they often include a narrator who is sometimes Socrates himself ...
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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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