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Hume's 'New Scene of Thought' and the Several Faces of David Hume in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
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2009
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Hume's 'New Scene of Thought,' is a defense of Hume's philosophical principles in the Treatise of Human Nature. Nelson shows that Hume's new philosophy was a uniquely original and profound work, a masterpiece in philosophical literature, and a work worthy of serious study and acceptance. Expounding on the meaning that Hume gives to his new science of man founded on an empirical foundation, it is shown that all the sciences were, in effect, nothing more than branches of 'introspective psychology.' The thesis of The Several faces of David Hume in The Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is that Dialogues is a reflective philosophical autobiography of Hume himself. Every character represents Hume at some stage in his life: Pamphilus is Hume at fifteen, and Philo is Hume in his adult philosophical maturity. Cleanthes is Bishop Butler but also Hume, when Hume was under the sway of Butler's writings as a young man. Demea represents the orthodox religious views that Hume was raised on, which Hume rejected by his eighteenth year.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-4735-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-4737-3
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
170
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Foreword No access
Chapter 01. Introduction No access
Chapter 02. The Science of Man in the Treatise No access
Chapter 03. The Interrelationships of theFour Parts of Book I No access
Chapter 04. The Internal Structures of Parts I – IV No access
Chapter 05. The Disowning of the Treatise No access
Chapter 06. Lockian Passages in the Treatise No access
Introduction: A Retrospect and Confession No access
Chapter 01. Philo and Hume in Parts I-XI and Skepticism No access
Chapter 02. Philo and Hume in Part XII No access
Bibliography No access Pages 163 - 166
Index for Hume’s “New Scene of Thought” No access Pages 167 - 168
Index for The Several Faces of David Hume in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion No access Pages 169 - 170
