Religion and faction in Hume's moral philosophy
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Religion and faction in Hume's moral philosophy
（Cambridge studies in religion and critical thought, 3）
Cambridge University Press, 1997
Available at 23 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-292) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book explores Hume's concern with the destructiveness of religious factions and his efforts to develop, in his moral philosophy, a solution to factional conflict. Sympathy and the related capacity to enter into foreign points of view are crucial to the neutralization of religious zeal and the naturalization of ethics. Jennifer Herdt suggests that Hume's preoccupation with religious faction is the key which reveals the unity of his varied philosophical, aesthetic, political and historical works.
Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Setting sympathy's stage
- 2. Displacing providence
- 3. 'Poetical systems' and the pleasures of tragedy
- 4. Sympathetic understanding and the threat of difference
- 5. Religion and irrationality in history
- Conclusion
- Bibliography.
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