TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sessions,William Lad
TI  - Reading Hume's Dialogues: A Veneration for True Religion
SN  - 9780253109361
AV  - B1493.D523 -- S47 2002eb 
U1  - 210 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Hume, David, -- 1711-1776. -- Dialogues concerning natural religion
KW  - Religion -- Philosophy
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Scene-Setting -- 3 Pamphilus to ermippus -- 4 Part 1 -- 5 Part 2 -- 6 Part 3 -- 7 Part 4 -- 8 Part 5 -- 9 Part 6 -- 10 Part 7 -- 11 Part 8 -- 12 Part 9 -- 13 Part 10 -- 14 Part 11 -- 15 Part 12 -- 16 Conclusion -- Notes -- List of Sources -- Index -- About the Author
N2  - "... establishes the literary and philosophical greatness of the                Dialogues in ways that even its warmest admirers have been unable to do                before."  -- Terence PenelhumIn 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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