Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Hume's Dialogues and the Comedy of Religion

Hume's Dialogues and the Comedy of Religion 390 HUME'S THE COMEDY RELIGION Laughter the key Hume's Concerng Natural Religion. deed, I would suggest that if the have not made one laugh, if one has not experienced the sheer delight Hume's rhetical excesses gaiety, then one hasn't really Hume undersod Cleanthes th wk at all. Philo a From th perspective, the usual questions are irrelevant -- Philo? migated sceptic a Pyrrhonian? Such debates are sterile ms the pot, f however constent constent the characters may be, the text has an tention the actual drama a direction all s own, destroyg the religious hypothes not so Hume's Concerng Natural much by 'serious' calculated argument as by ridicule excess. Religion are the expression a healthy cheerful malice which strives at every turn tensify the sense the absurdy religion. Hence their flavour primarily rhetical, would be a mtake consider them as merely a collection paraphraseable pros directed agast the possibily rational theology. Th not say, however, that Hume did not take religion seriously; on the contrary, he uses all the devices comedy der overwhelm -- rather as Nietzsche was argue: "Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. ml th paper, I will consider the rhetical aspect Hume's http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Hume Studies Hume Society

Hume's Dialogues and the Comedy of Religion

Hume Studies , Volume 14 (2) – Jan 26, 1988

Loading next page...
 
/lp/hume-society/hume-s-dialogues-and-the-comedy-of-religion-t8dlMTTp2z

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Hume Society
Copyright
Copyright © Hume Society
ISSN
1947-9921
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

390 HUME'S THE COMEDY RELIGION Laughter the key Hume's Concerng Natural Religion. deed, I would suggest that if the have not made one laugh, if one has not experienced the sheer delight Hume's rhetical excesses gaiety, then one hasn't really Hume undersod Cleanthes th wk at all. Philo a From th perspective, the usual questions are irrelevant -- Philo? migated sceptic a Pyrrhonian? Such debates are sterile ms the pot, f however constent constent the characters may be, the text has an tention the actual drama a direction all s own, destroyg the religious hypothes not so Hume's Concerng Natural much by 'serious' calculated argument as by ridicule excess. Religion are the expression a healthy cheerful malice which strives at every turn tensify the sense the absurdy religion. Hence their flavour primarily rhetical, would be a mtake consider them as merely a collection paraphraseable pros directed agast the possibily rational theology. Th not say, however, that Hume did not take religion seriously; on the contrary, he uses all the devices comedy der overwhelm -- rather as Nietzsche was argue: "Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. ml th paper, I will consider the rhetical aspect Hume's

Journal

Hume StudiesHume Society

Published: Jan 26, 1988

There are no references for this article.