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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... philosophical works — particu- larly masterpieces in Greek , German , and French — have often received ex- tended ... philosophers regard as " beyond any question the greatest work on philosophy of religion in the English language ...
... philosophical discussion . Consequently , scores of philosophical articles take up and take issue with some proposition or argument detectable in Hume's Dialogues , sometimes indeed worrying over what is actually said in the text or ...
... philosophical / literary genre , the literary form is inseparable from , and indeed essentially contributory toward , its philosophical content , intended effect , and overall meaning . What is said is said by someone , who speaks in a ...
... philosophical dialogue the actions are mostly speech - acts , and stage directions normally consume only a small num- ber of the words of the text . But quantity is no true measure of importance . On the contrary , deeds often speak ...
... philosophers of re- ligion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries , even if it did not have , pace Penelhum , " the effect of destroying a whole tradition of theological reflection " ( Penelhum 1975 , 163 ) . Still , in the end even ...
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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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