Religion and Faction in Hume's Moral PhilosophyThis 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. |
Contents
Setting sympathys stage | 19 |
Interestedness and intelligibility | 26 |
The solution of sympathy | 31 |
Sympathy and the experimental method | 37 |
Displacing Providence | 41 |
The Hutcheson connection | 52 |
Accounting for approbation | 62 |
The problem of contradiction | 67 |
The problem of vicious manners | 135 |
Divergent sympathies | 145 |
Beyond poetry history speculation and religion | 159 |
Religion and irrationality in history | 170 |
Varieties of religious belief | 173 |
Hume vs Pascal | 183 |
Irony and sentimentality in the History of England | 190 |
Zeal and faction | 199 |
Sympathy and the Enquiry | 73 |
Poetical systems and the pleasures of tragedy | 84 |
The Douglas controversy | 89 |
Of tragedy | 100 |
Fiction reality and belief | 107 |
the dangers of detachment | 115 |
Sympathetic understanding and the threat of difference | 119 |
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