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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... question the greatest work on philosophy of religion in the English 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 ...
... of conflicting interpretations . Prominent among disputed issues is the question of what beliefs Hume intended to convey and endorse through the discourses of his characters — an issue focused in the common Introduction 5.
... questions of Hume's owner- ship of the views expressed in the Dialogues . It is always possible that , even when we have understood this text's intentions , we will still be unable to de- termine what Hume's own views were , for perhaps ...
... Question of Importance , to write alternately the different Parts of the Dis- course , & reply to each other . " 3 Of course , different authors for different characters wouldn't guarantee excellent or even different opinions or argu ...
... questions occur , concerning the nature of that divine being .... Concerning these , human reason has not reached any certain determination : But these are topics so interesting , that we cannot restrain our restless enquiry with regard ...
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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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