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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... language " ( Penelhum 1975 , 171 ) , and which some even hold to be " the finest dialogue written in English " ( Morrisroe 1970 , 95 ; see also Mossner 1977 , 2 ) . A general reason why there has been no full - scale commentary on the ...
... language philosophers have used classic texts such as Hume's Dialogues as a kind of virtual discussion partner — to engage in philo- sophical argument with views and inferences drawn from the text with varying degrees of reformulation ...
... language of the Dialogues requires some going " outside " the text to see how words and figures and phrases were used and understood by these contemporaries . Fortunately , the language Hume used is largely com- prehensible to speakers ...
... language and that it is our responsibility to discover how they contribute to the text's overall design . 3. The Dialogues contains a remarkably large number of aids to its own interpretation ( no accident , I believe , but an aspect of ...
... language not simply to convey abstract propositions but to 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 ...
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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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