Toward a Humean True Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toward a Humean True Religion write by Andre C. Willis. This book was released on 2015-06-19. Toward a Humean True Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. David Hume is traditionally seen as a devastating critic of religion. He is widely read as an infidel, a critic of the Christian faith, and an attacker of popular forms of worship. His reputation as irreligious is well forged among his readers, and his argument against miracles sits at the heart of the narrative overview of his work that perennially indoctrinates thousands of first-year philosophy students. In Toward a Humean True Religion, Andre Willis succeeds in complicating Hume’s split approach to religion, showing that Hume was not, in fact, dogmatically against religion in all times and places. Hume occupied a “watershed moment,” Willis contends, when old ideas of religion were being replaced by the modern idea of religion as a set of epistemically true but speculative claims. Thus, Willis repositions the relative weight of Hume’s antireligious sentiment, giving significance to the role of both historical and discursive forces instead of simply relying on Hume’s personal animus as its driving force. Willis muses about what a Humean “true religion” might look like and suggests that we think of this as a third way between the classical and modern notions of religion. He argues that the cumulative achievements of Hume’s mild philosophic theism, the aim of his moral rationalism, and the conclusion of his project on the passions provide the best content for this “true religion.”
Imagination in Hume's Philosophy
Imagination in Hume's Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagination in Hume's Philosophy write by Timothy M. Costelloe. This book was released on 2018-03-21. Imagination in Hume's Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Defines the cutting-edge of scholarship on ancient Greek history employing methods from social science
The Philosophical Progress of Hume's Essays
The Philosophical Progress of Hume's Essays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Philosophical Progress of Hume's Essays write by Margaret Watkins. This book was released on 2019-01-03. The Philosophical Progress of Hume's Essays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For those open to the possibility that philosophical thought can improve life, David Hume's Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary have something to say. In the first comprehensive study of the Essays, Margaret Watkins engages closely with these neglected texts and shows how they provide important insights into Hume's perspective on the breadth and depth of human life, arguing that the Essays reveal his continued commitment to philosophy as a discipline that can promote both social and individual progress. Addressing topics such as politics, war, slavery, the priesthood, the development of industry, aesthetics, emotional disorders, egoism, friendship, sexuality, gender relations, and the nature of philosophy itself, the volume examines Hume's purposes and aims against the backdrop of the eighteenth century society in which he lived. It will be of interest to scholars of modern thought in philosophy, politics, history, and economics.
Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy
Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy write by Paul Russell. This book was released on 2021-07-13. Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this collection of essays, philosopher Paul Russell addresses major figures and central topics of the history of early modern philosophy. Most of these essays are studies on the philosophy of David Hume, one of the great figures in the history of philosophy. One central theme, connecting many of the essays, concerns Hume's fundamental irreligious intentions. Russell argues that a proper appreciation of the significance of Hume's irreligious concerns, which runs through his whole philosophy, serves to discredit the deeply entrenched framework for understanding Hume - and much of early modern philosophy - in terms of the idea of "British Empiricism". In a substantive introduction, Russell outlines how his various insights overlap and connect to each other. The volume is organized thematically into five sections: metaphysics, free will, ethics, religion, and general interpretations of Hume's philosophy. The collection also features a previously unpublished essay on Hume's atheism and an essay on Adam Smith's views on religion and ethics that has not been previously published in English. Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy presents the reader with Russell's substantial and significant set of interconnected observations and insights on the matters and figures of the greatest importance in early modern philosophy. These essays not only provide different and original perspectives on the subject, they also show that the various issues addressed are very relevant to each other, as well as to a number of major topics in contemporary philosophy.
Reading Hume's Dialogues
Reading Hume's Dialogues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Hume's Dialogues write by William Lad Sessions. This book was released on 2002-09-13. Reading Hume's Dialogues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "... establishes the literary and philosophical greatness of the Dialogues in ways that even its warmest admirers have been unable to do before." -- Terence Penelhum 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?
