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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... Religion, the Dissertation on the Passions, and the two essays Of Tragedy and Of the Standard of Taste. The author ... belief. Amyas Merivale works at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK. He is the co-editor of Hume's ...
... Religion, 'N' refers to the Natural History of Religion, 'P' refers to the Dissertation on the Passions, 'Tr' refers to Of Tragedy, and 'ST' refers to Of the Standard of Taste. Other essays are abbreviated in a similar fashion, but only ...
... Religion (2007, p. xiv), and to the best of my knowledge has never been contradicted. Now, if Books 1 and 3 of the Treatise have generally overshadowed their Enquiry successors, Book 2 has positively eclipsed the Dissertation on the ...
... Religion, Of Tragedy, and Of the Standard of Taste. In a soundbite: the Four ... religion, and viewing the work primarily as a companion piece to the posthumous ... belief—or at least my hope—that by looking at these works together we can ...
... Religion by examining it in relation to Hume's treatment of the passions. I will echo some of her thoughts in Chapter 6. Bibliography Beauchamp, Tom L., ed. (2007). A Dissertation on the Passions and the Natural History of Religion, by ...
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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 | |