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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... merely inter- nal interpretation of the Dialogues as confining and reactionary , a naive ab- straction , suspect politically , an impossible ideal , a return in these deconstruc- tive days to the discredited New Criticism of the ' 40s ...
... mere window dressing but is vital to structure , content , and meaning . Further , not only what is said ( in all a ... merely stated nor externally related . Rather , they are most skillfully de- picted , indicated , and delicately ...
... about nothing more than this , as if " natural religion " meant only " natural theology , " and as if the Preface and Parts 1 and 12 were merely peripheral interesting literary flourishes , perhaps , but having little Introduction 19.
... merely number these divisions ; he gave them the bland and unhelpful labels of " Part 1 , " " Part 2 , " and so forth . Another , more fanciful error grows from suspicion of the narrator , Pamphilus : Perhaps the youthful and ...
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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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