{"product_id":"humes-new-scene-of-thought-and-the-several-faces-of-david-hume-in-the-dialogues-concerning-natural-religion-9780761847359","title":"Hume's 'New Scene of Thought' and the Several Faces of David Hume in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John O. Nelson | Jeff Broome\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University Press of America\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University Press of America\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHume's \"New Scene of Thought,\"\u003c\/i\u003e is a defense of Hume's philosophical principles in the \u003ci\u003eTreatise of Human Nature.\u003c\/i\u003e Nelson shows that Hume's new philosophy was a uniquely original and profound work, a masterpiece in philosophical literature, and a work worthy of serious study and acceptance. Expounding on the meaning that Hume gives to his new science of man founded on an empirical foundation, it is shown that all the sciences were, in effect, nothing more than branches of \"introspective psychology.\" \u003cbr\u003eThe thesis of \u003ci\u003eThe Several faces of David Hume in The Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion\u003c\/i\u003e is that \u003ci\u003eDialogues\u003c\/i\u003e is a reflective philosophical autobiography of Hume himself. Every character represents Hume at some stage in his life: Pamphilus is Hume at fifteen, and Philo is Hume in his adult philosophical maturity. Cleanthes is Bishop Butler but also Hume, when Hume was under the sway of Butler's writings as a young man. Demea represents the orthodox religious views that Hume was raised on, which Hume rejected by his eighteenth year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of America","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47583697305751,"sku":"9780761847359","price":10164.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780761847359.webp?v=1774946178","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/humes-new-scene-of-thought-and-the-several-faces-of-david-hume-in-the-dialogues-concerning-natural-religion-9780761847359","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}