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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... thought- ful criticism when I presented parts of my project to their annual meetings in 1998 and 2001. An undergraduate seminar in the spring of 1998 worked through a draft alongside Hume's text , and I benefited from comments by Jeremy ...
... thought and writings within its eighteenth - century Scottish social and intellectual con- text . Of course , this context is itself usually more or less restricted to other writings by Hume ; to Hume's life ; to those persons , books ...
... thought to be its only or its supremely valuable elements . Still , loose ends and inconsistencies are not incompatible with organic unity ; indeed , such ten- sions and oppositions can be useful or essential to the overall harmony of a ...
... Each word of the title of this book bears careful thought . We noted ear- lier the considerable ambiguity of " dialogue . " Initially , a dialogue is both form and content a certain literary form and an actual or Scene - Setting 13.
... thought , that the best way of composing a Dia- logue , wou'd be for two Persons that are of different Opinions about any Question of Importance , to write alternately the different Parts of the Dis- course , & reply to each other . " 3 ...
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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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