Hume on Art, Emotion, and Superstition: A Critical Study of the Four Dissertations Merivale Amyas
Hume on Art, Emotion, and Superstition: A Critical Study of the Four Dissertations Merivale Amyas This book offers the first comprehensive critical study of David Hume's Four Dissertations of 1757,…
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Hume on Art, Emotion, and Superstition: A Critical Study of the Four Dissertations Merivale Amyas
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 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 author defends two important claims.
Most strikingly, it is anti-egoist and anti-hedonist about motivation, where the Treatise had espoused a Lockean hedonism and egoism. The second is that the theory of the passions they jointly present is significantly different--indeed, significantly improved--from that of the earlier Treatise. It is also more cognitivist in its analysis of the passions themselves, and