Hume on Art, Emotion, and Superstition: A Critical Study of the Four DissertationsRoutledge, 7 dic 2018 - 252 páginas This book offers the first comprehensive critical study of David Hume’s Four Dissertations of 1757, containing the Natural History of Religion, the Dissertation on the Passions, and the two essays Of Tragedy and Of the Standard of Taste. The author defends two important claims. The first is that these four works were not published together merely for convenience, but that they form a tightly integrated set, unified by the subject matter of the passions. The second is that the theory of the passions they jointly present is significantly different—indeed, significantly improved—from that of the earlier Treatise. Most strikingly, it is anti-egoist and anti-hedonist about motivation, where the Treatise had espoused a Lockean hedonism and egoism. It is also more cognitivist in its analysis of the passions themselves, and demonstrates a greater awareness of the limits of sympathy and of the varieties of human taste. This book is an important contribution to the scholarly literature on Hume’s work on the passions, art, and superstitious belief. |
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... tell the story of what I take to be the major change in Hume's philosophy of emotion. When he wrote the Treatise, I argue, Hume was a psychological hedonist and egoist, in the tradition of Hobbes, Locke, and Mandeville (Chapter 3) ...
... Hume's Enquiry concerning the Passions is at the heart of this study, and provides its chief motivation, but the study itself does not end there. My aim, in sum, is to build up a coherent and—as far as possible within the constraints of ...
... does not follow. It is only Of the Standard of Taste that was a late addition, and nothing suggests that Hume didn't initially conceive the other three as part of a coherent set. Nor is there anything to suggest that, faced with the ...
... Hume understandably revisited it as soon as possible, in section 8 of his ... Hume's famous argument concerning the combat of passion and reason, revisited in section ... said in §1.1, was apparently just to remove the moral and critical ...
... Hume's Dialogues, and while it is controversial whether Hume agrees with everything this character says, there is no doubt that this is where his sympathies lie, at least broadly speaking. This is further confirmation of his close ties ...
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Some Late Philosophers in England | |
Founded on Pain and Pleasure | |
A Considerable Adjustment Part II | |
The First Religious Principles | |
The Object of the Passions | |
The Combat of Passion and Reason | |
The Causes of the Violent Passions | |
The Predominant Passion | |
The Sentiments of Beauty | |
The Laws of Criticism | |
Conclusion | |