The Testimony Of Sense

Author : Tim Milnes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192540912
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Testimony of Sense written by Tim Milnes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Testimony of Sense attempts to answer a neglected but important question: what became of epistemology in the late eighteenth century, in the period between Hume's scepticism and Romantic idealism? It finds that two factors in particular reshaped the nature of 'empiricism': the socialisation of experience by Scottish Enlightenment thinkers and the impact upon philosophical discourse of the belletrism of periodical culture. The book aims to correct the still widely-held assumption that Hume effectively silenced epistemological inquiry in Britain for over half a century. Instead, it argues that Hume encouraged the abandonment of subject-centred reason in favour of models of rationality based upon the performance of trusting actions within society. Of particular interest here is the way in which, after Hume, fundamental ideas like the self, truth, and meaning are conceived less in terms of introspection, correspondence, and reference, and more in terms of community, coherence, and communication. By tracing the idea of intersubjectivity through the issues of trust, testimony, virtue and language, the study offers new perspectives on the relationships between philosophy and literature, empiricism and transcendentalism, and Enlightenment and Romanticism. As philosophy grew more conversational, the familiar essay became a powerful metaphor for new forms of communication. The book explores what is epistemologically at stake in the familiar essay genre as it develops through the writings of Joseph Addison, David Hume, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, and William Hazlitt. It also offers readings of philosophical texts, such as Hume's Treatise, Thomas Reid's Inquiry, and Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, as literary performances.

Author : Tim Milnes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198812736
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Testimony of Sense written by Tim Milnes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Testimony of Sense attempts to answer a neglected but important question: what became of epistemology in the late eighteenth century, in the period between Hume's scepticism and Romantic idealism? It finds that two factors in particular reshaped the nature of 'empiricism': the socialisation of experience by Scottish Enlightenment thinkers and the impact upon philosophical discourse of the belletrism of periodical culture. The book aims to correct the still widely-held assumption that Hume effectively silenced epistemological inquiry in Britain for over half a century. Instead, it argues that Hume encouraged the abandonment of subject-centred reason in favour of models of rationality based upon the performance of trusting actions within society. Of particular interest here is the way in which, after Hume, fundamental ideas like the self, truth, and meaning are conceived less in terms of introspection, correspondence, and reference, and more in terms of community, coherence, and communication. By tracing the idea of intersubjectivity through the issues of trust, testimony, virtue and language, the study offers new perspectives on the relationships between philosophy and literature, empiricism and transcendentalism, and Enlightenment and Romanticism. As philosophy grew more conversational, the familiar essay became a powerful metaphor for new forms of communication. The book explores what is epistemologically at stake in the familiar essay genre as it develops through the writings of Joseph Addison, David Hume, Samuel Johnson, Charles Lamb, and William Hazlitt. It also offers readings of philosophical texts, such as Hume's Treatise, Thomas Reid's Inquiry, and Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, as literary performances.

Author : Sunny Kuan-Hui Wang
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161547355
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sense Perception and Testimony in the Gospel According to John written by Sunny Kuan-Hui Wang and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Sunny Kuan-Hui Wang explores the relationship between sense perception and testimony in the Gospel of John. While Johannine scholars tend to focus on one or the other, she shows that sense perception and testimony are both significant and are used together with the intention of drawing readers into the narrative so that they become witnesses in an emotionally engaged way. It is argued that John's use of sense perception together with testimony is rooted in Jewish literature. Yet John also employs a Graeco-Roman rhetorical technique, enargeia , which appeals to the persuasive power of sense perception to make his narrative vivid. John does not downplay sense perception. Rather, he uses it in the context of testimony as a means of persuasion to draw the readers, in their imagination, into the experience of the first disciples and thus deeper into faith and witness.

Author : Thomas Cogswell Upham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.W6/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mental Philosophy: The intellect, with an appendix on language written by Thomas Cogswell Upham and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Fergus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Testimony of Nature and Revelation to the Being, Perfections and Government of God written by Henry Fergus and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sunny Kuan-Hui Wang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783161551154
Total Pages : 274 pages
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Download or read book Sense Perception and Testimony in the Gospel According to John written by Sunny Kuan-Hui Wang and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Hume
Publisher : VM eBooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding written by David Hume and published by VM eBooks. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral philosophy, or the science of human nature, may be treated after two different manners; each of which has its peculiar merit, and may contribute to the entertainment, instruction, and reformation of mankind. The one considers man chiefly as born for action; and as influenced in his measures by taste and sentiment; pursuing one object, and avoiding another, according to the value which these objects seem to possess, and according to the light in which they present themselves. As virtue, of all objects, is allowed to be the most valuable, this species of philosophers paint her in the most amiable colours; borrowing all helps from poetry and eloquence, and treating their subject in an easy and obvious manner, and such as is best fitted to please the imagination, and engage the affections. They select the most striking observations and instances from common life; place opposite characters in a proper contrast; and alluring us into the paths of virtue by the views of glory and happiness, direct our steps in these paths by the soundest precepts and most illustrious examples. They make us feel the difference between vice and virtue; they excite and regulate our sentiments; and so they can but bend our hearts to the love of probity and true honour, they think, that they have fully attained the end of all their labours.

Author : Thomas Reid
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Thomas Reid written by Thomas Reid and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas WORCESTER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book Appeal to the testimony of Christ with respect to what dishonors him. A discourse [on John viii. 47], etc written by Thomas WORCESTER and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Anchor Thompson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 922 pages
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Download or read book Christian theism: the testimony to the existence and character of the Supreme being written by Robert Anchor Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: