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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... internal dynamics . Gradually I came to two realizations : First , there is great need of a com- prehensive treatment of the Dialogues — for some reason or other , piecemeal approaches abound , but no one has yet bothered to write a ...
... internal interpretation . Both analytic extraction and historical contextualization provide external interpretations ... internal hermeneutical approach . Such an approach begins with two principles : First , close reading of a text on ...
... internal interpretation is im- possible , and this for reasons as much in the interpreter as in the text . Clearly ... internally . The inter- preter is willy - nilly a person who has developed his or her interpretative skills and tools ...
... internal interpretation can never be more than an ideal to be approximated , never consummated . Nonetheless , it is , I believe , an ideal well worth pursuing , for the following reasons . 1. Most obviously , the Dialogues has ...
... internal interpretation 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 ...
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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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