Reading Hume's Dialogues : a veneration for true religion /
Sessions, William Lad.
Reading Hume's Dialogues : a veneration for true religion / William Lad Sessions. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2002. - x, 281 p. ; 24 cm. - Indiana series in the philosophy of religion . - Indiana series in the philosophy of religion. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-267) and index.
Annotation 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?
0253341167 (alk. paper) 9780253341167 (alk. paper) 025321534X (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780253215345 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2001006741
Hume, David, 1711-1776. Dialogues concerning natural religion.
Religion--Philosophy.
B1493.D523 / S47 2002
061339
Reading Hume's Dialogues : a veneration for true religion / William Lad Sessions. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2002. - x, 281 p. ; 24 cm. - Indiana series in the philosophy of religion . - Indiana series in the philosophy of religion. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-267) and index.
Annotation 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?
0253341167 (alk. paper) 9780253341167 (alk. paper) 025321534X (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780253215345 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2001006741
Hume, David, 1711-1776. Dialogues concerning natural religion.
Religion--Philosophy.
B1493.D523 / S47 2002
061339