Author: Richard PricePublisher:
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Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Four Dissertations
Author: Richard PricePublisher:
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Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Four Dissertations
Author: David HumePublisher:
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Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Four Dissertations: I. Of God's permitting the fall of Adam and creating Man capable of Sin. II. Of the Extraordinary Assistance vouchsafed to the first publishers of the Gospel and the Primitive Church. III. Of Prophetical Revelation. IV. Of the resurrection of the same body
Author: Robert DOYLYPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Four Dissertations
Author: Richard PricePublisher: Burns & Oates
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Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Four Dissertations
Author: David HumePublisher: Burns & Oates
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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In 1756 a volume of Hume's essays entitled Five Dissertations was printed and ready for distribution. The essays included "The Natural History of Religion", "Of the Passions", "Of Tragedy", "Of Suicide", and "Of the Immortality of the Soul". The latter two essays made direct attacks on common religious doctrines by defending a person's moral right to commit suicide and by criticizing the idea of life after death. Early copies were passed around, and someone of influence threatened to prosecute Hume's publisher if the book was distributed as is. The printed copies of Five Dissertations were then physically altered, with a new essay "Of the Standard of Taste" inserted in place of the two removed essays. Hume also took this opportunity to alter two particularly offending paragraphs in the Natural History. The essays were then bound with the new title Four Dissertations and distributed in January, 1757. The essays in Four stand together as a unified whole, showcasing his psychology of the passions and demonstrating its application to both religion and aesthetics. This edition also includes Hume's extended Dedication, a passionate endorsement of intellectual and artistic freedom, which has been out of print since the original publication in 1757. The essays on suicide and the immortality of the soul, long separated from the other essays, are here finally put back, as intended by Hume. "On the Immortality of the Soul" briskly dismisses metaphysical, moral, and physical arguments, and refers us instead to a revelation that Hume himself clearly did not believe in. "On Suicide" vigorously rebuts the theologians' claim that self-destruction is a crime, arguing instead that under certaincircumstances, suicide might be not permissible but morally required. Included are "Two Letters on Suicide" from Rousseau's Eloisa.
Four Dissertations. I. On Providence. II. On Prayer. III. On the reasons for expecting that virtuous men shall meet after death in a state of happiness. IV. On the importance of Christianity, the nature of historical evidence, and miracles ... Second edition, with additions
Author: Richard PricePublisher:
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Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Six Discourses, on Prophecy. To which are Added, Four Dissertations. I. The Authority of the Second Epistle of St. Peter. II. The Sense of the Antients ... Upon ... the Fall. III. The Blessings of Judah ... IV. Christ's Entry Into Jerusalem. Also, an Appendix. Containing a Farther Enquiry Into the Mosaick Account of the Fall. By Tho. Sherlock .. The Sixth Edition, Corrected and Enlarged
Author: Thomas Sherlock (successively, Bishop of Bangor, of Salisbury, and of London.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 400
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The Means of Finding the Longitude at Sea ... in Four ... Dissertations. Second Edition, Etc
Author: Charles GRANT (Viscount de Vaux.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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A Dissertation on the Passions
Author: David HumePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199251886
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Tom Beauchamp presents the definitive scholarly edition of two famous works by David Hume, both originally published in 1757. In A Dissertation on the Passions Hume sets out his original view of the nature and central role of passion and emotion. The Natural History of Religion is a landmark work in the study of religion as a natural phenomenon.
Early Responses to Hume’s Writings on Religion: Part 2
Author: James FieserPublisher: James Fieser
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
This work is the sixth in the 10-volume series "Early Responses to Hume", which is an edited and annotated collection of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century critical reactions to Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) . Both a philosopher and historian, he was infamous in his day for his skeptical views on human nature, knowledge, metaphysics, and religion.
