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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... paragraphs ; the longest is Part 12 , three times longer with 34 paragraphs ) , with the following rough structure : In Part 1 , Demea , Cleanthes and Philo all discuss natural religion and religious inquiry ( particularly skepticism ) ...
... paragraph by Pamphilus to Hermippus , summing up the strong impressions made on him by the speakers : I confess , that , upon a serious review of the whole , I cannot but think , that PHILO's principles are more probable than DEMEA's ...
... types : In Part 7 , Philo and Demea discuss an idea of Philo's , while Cleanthes listens to their interchange and then contributes , in the Part's last paragraph , some comments of his own . In Part 16 / Reading Hume's Dialogues.
... paragraph Cleanthes invites Philo's opinion , then Philo launches into a monologue that consumes the remainder of the Part . Such examples could be multiplied , and they contribute to the multiple ambiguity of " dialogue " in our text ...
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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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