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Author |
: David Hume |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 5 |
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: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:867712403 |
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: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Of Superstition and Enthusiasm by : David Hume
Author |
: Stuart Vyse |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 152 |
Release |
: 2020-01-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192551313 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192551310 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Superstition: A Very Short Introduction by : Stuart Vyse
Do you touch wood for luck, or avoid hotel rooms on floor thirteen? Would you cross the path of a black cat, or step under a ladder? Is breaking a mirror just an expensive waste of glass, or something rather more sinister? Despite the dominance of science in today's world, superstitious beliefs - both traditional and new - remain surprisingly popular. A recent survey of adults in the United States found that 33 percent believed that finding a penny was good luck, and 23 percent believed that the number seven was lucky. Where did these superstitions come from, and why do they persist today? This Very Short Introduction explores the nature and surprising history of superstition from antiquity to the present. For two millennia, superstition was a label derisively applied to foreign religions and unacceptable religious practices, and its primary purpose was used to separate groups and assert religious and social authority. After the Enlightenment, the superstition label was still used to define groups, but the new dividing line was between reason and unreason. Today, despite our apparent sophistication and technological advances, superstitious belief and behaviour remain widespread, and highly educated people are not immune. Stuart Vyse takes an exciting look at the varieties of popular superstitious beliefs today and the psychological reasons behind their continued existence, as well as the likely future course of superstition in our increasingly connected world. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author |
: DAVID HUME |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 90 |
Release |
: 2024-01-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789361157677 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9361157671 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Essays by : DAVID HUME
The 18th-century collection of philosophical articles "Essays" was penned by Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume. The essays' broad range of subjects reflects Hume's varied interests in politics, literature, and philosophy. "A Treatise of Human Nature," one of Hume's most important essays, examines human thinking and makes the case for a more sceptical and empirical philosophy. He promotes a study of human nature based on observation and experience, challenging conventional beliefs about causality, identity, and the nature of knowledge. Hume's writing is distinguished by its empiricism, wit, and clarity. His writings, which provide insights into human nature, the basis of knowledge, and the difficulties of moral and aesthetic judgments, continue to have an impact on the domains of philosophy and economics. The compilation offers a thorough understanding of Hume's contributions to philosophy and is still studied because of its significant influence on Western thought.
Author |
: Andre C. Willis |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2015-06-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780271065786 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0271065788 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Toward a Humean True Religion by : Andre C. Willis
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.”
Author |
: Amyas Merivale |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2018-12-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429787461 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429787464 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hume on Art, Emotion, and Superstition by : Amyas Merivale
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.
Author |
: Kenneth R. Merrill |
Publisher |
: Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages |
: 377 |
Release |
: 2008-08-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780810862531 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0810862530 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Hume's Philosophy by : Kenneth R. Merrill
The philosopher David Hume was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on April 26, 1711. Known for his re-thinking of causation, morality, and religion, Hume has left a lasting mark on history. James Madison, the 'father' of the U.S. Constitution, drew heavily on Hume's writing, especially his 'Idea of Perfect Commonwealth,' which combated the belief at the time that a large country could not sustain a republican form of government. Hume's writing also influenced Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. The Historical Dictionary of Hume's Philosophy is the only Hume dictionary in existence. The book provides a substantial account of David Hume's life and the times in which he lived, and it provides an overview of his philosophical doctrines. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over a hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries covering key terms, as well as brief discussions of Hume's major works and of some of his most important predecessors, contemporaries, and successors.
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: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 334 |
Release |
: 2019-12-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004415270 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004415270 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Idealist Alternatives to Materialist Philosophies of Science by :
Idealist Alternatives to Materialist Philosophies of Science (ed. Philip MacEwen) presents some of the major challenges to materialist interpretations of science while also giving materialism a full hearing.
Author |
: Louis E. Loeb |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 2002-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198033509 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198033508 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stability and Justification in Hume's Treatise by : Louis E. Loeb
David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature is famous for its extreme skepticism. Louis Loeb argues that Hume's destructive conclusions have in fact obscured a constructive stage that Hume abandons prematurely. Working within a philosophical tradition that values tranquillity, Hume favors an epistemology that links justification with settled belief. Hume appeals to psychological stability to support his own epistemological assessments, both favorable regarding causal inference, and unfavorable regarding imaginative propensities. The theory's success in explaining Hume's epistemic distinctions gives way to pessimism, since Hume contends that reflection on beliefs is deeply destabilizing. So much the worse, Hume concludes, for placing a premium on reflection. Hume endorses and defends the position that stable beliefs of unreflective persons are justified, though they would not survive reflection. At the same time, Hume relishes the paradox that unreflective beliefs enjoy a preferred epistemic status and strains to establish it. Loeb introduces a series of amendments to the Treatise that secures a more positive result for justified belief while maintaining Hume's fundamental principles. In his review of Hume's applications of his epistemology, Loeb uncovers a stratum of psychological doctrine beyond associationism, a theory of conditions in which beliefs are felt to conflict and of the resolution of this uneasiness or dissonance. This theory of mental conflict is also essential to Hume's strategy for integrating empiricism about meaning with his naturalism. However, Hume fails to provide a general account of the conditions in which conflicting beliefs lead to persisting instability, so his theory is incomplete. Loeb explores Hume's concern with stability in reference to his discussions of belief, education, the probability of causes, unphilosophical probability, the belief in body, sympathy and moral judgment, and the passions, among other topics.
Author |
: Isaac Taylor |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 1842 |
ISBN-10 |
: BSB:BSB10042027 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Natural History of Enthusiasm by : Isaac Taylor
Author |
: David Hume |
Publisher |
: Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 1994-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0872201600 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780872201606 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hume: Political Writings by : David Hume
The first thematically arranged collection of Hume's political writings, this new work brings together substantive selections from A Treatise on Human Nature, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, and Essays: Moral, Political and Literary, with an interpretive introduction placing Hume in the context of contemporary debates between liberalism and its critics and between contextual and universal approaches.