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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... theology . How is his apparent about - face to be explained , particularly if , as most commentators suppose , Philo and Philo alone is Hume's " spokesman " ( Mossner 1977 , 8 ) ? Jonathan Dancy considers Philo's " volte - face " as ...
... theological design arguments , and they have more a practical than a theoretical aspect . The Dialogues , it turns out , is more about piety than theology . Given that humans have an ineradicable teleological bent , how does our species ...
... theology and piety , reason , common life , and true religion are introduced ( 1.1-2 ) , 2 the drama begins ( 1.3-4 ) , and the varieties and diffi- culties of skepticism , particularly in religious subjects , are discussed ( 1.5-16 ) ...
... practice , variously contrasting " true religion " with " vulgar superstition . " Philo closes the conversations with his final view of piety ( 12.27-32 ) and theology ( 12.33 ) . Part 12 then concludes with a 12 / Reading Hume's Dialogues.
... theological doctrines — nor equated with " theology " —a set of beliefs , claims , propositions , arguments , evidence , and so forth about the divine . That would make of religion a wholly theoreti- cal or intellectual affair , and it ...
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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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