Four Dissertations: And Essays on Suicide and the.
Four Dissertations (1757) prepared by Amyas Merivale. The Natural History of Religion, the Dissertation on the Passions, and Of Tragedy were originally intended for a set of four dissertations alongside an essay on the metaphysical principles of geometry. Shortly before publication, however, Hume was persuaded by Lord Stanhope “that either there was some Defect in the Argument (of this.
During this period he also published Four Dissertations: The Natural History of Religion, Of the Passions, Of Tragedy, Of the Standard of Taste. These works aroused controversy in the religious community before they became public. Early copies were passed around, and someone of influence threatened to prosecute Hume’s publisher if the book was distributed as it was. Hume deleted two essays.
Four Dissertations is a collection of four essays by the Scottish enlightenment philosopher David Hume, first published in 1757. The four essays are: The Natural History of Religion; Of the Passions; Of Tragedy; Of the Standard of Taste.
Four Dissertations. David Hume. New York: St. Augustine's Press (1757) Abstract DISSERTATION T. The Natural History of Religion. INTRODUCTION. AS every enquiry, which regards Religion, is of the utmost importance, there are two. Keywords Natural theology Emotions Tragedy Aesthetics Suicide Moral and ethical aspects Immortality Hume: Categories Aesthetic Taste in Aesthetics. Hume: Philosophy.
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.
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The manuscript of Hume's 'Dialogues concerning natural religion', published privately by Hume's nephew (1779) The only surviving copies of two printed dissertations — 'Of suicide' and 'Of the immortality of the soul' — that were suppressed from the published version of Hume's 'Four dissertations' (1757).