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1 online resource (253 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy Ser
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Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Conventions; Introduction; Part I; 1 My Design in the Present Work; 2 Some Late Philosophers in England; 3 Founded on Pain and Pleasure; 4 A Considerable Adjustment; Part II; 5 The Religious Passion; 6 The First Religious Principles; 7 The Object of the Passions; 8 The Combat of Passion and Reason; 9 The Causes of the Violent Passions; 10 The Predominant Passion; 11 The Sentiments of Beauty; 12 The Laws of Criticism; Conclusion; Appendix 1. The Meaning of All the Terms; Appendix 2. Comparison of Ideas; Index |
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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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Print version record |
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Emotions (Philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Amyas Merivale.
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An Enquiry Concerning the Passions.
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A Critical Study of Hume's Four Dissertations.
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A Dissertation on the Passions.
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anti-egoism.
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association.
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comparison.
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conversion principle.
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David Hume.
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Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, .
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Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals.
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egoism.
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Four Dissertations.
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Hume.
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intentionality.
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motivation.
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Natural History of Religion.
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Of Tragedy.
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Of the Standard of Taste.
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original instincts.
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Peter Millican.
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passions.
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philosophy of emotion.
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reason.
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superstition.
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sympathy.
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Treatise of Human Nature.
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value.
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18th century philosophy.
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Emotions (Philosophy)
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Electronic book
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9780429787478 |
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0429787472 |
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