| 书目名称 | Melancholy Duty | | 副标题 | The Hume-Gibbon Atta | | 编辑 | Stephen Paul Foster | | 视频video | | | 丛书名称 | International Archives of the History of Ideas‘ Archives internationales d‘histoire des idées | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book studies the complementary features of the thought ofDavid Hume and Edward Gibbon in the complete range of itsconfrontation with eighteenth-century Christianity. The ten chaptersexplore the iconoclasm of these two philosophical historians -Hume as the premier philosopher, Gibbon as the consummate historian- as they labored to `naturalize‘ the study of Christianity,particularly with attention to its social and political dimensions. Noother work deals as comprehensively or thoroughly with the attempt ofphilosophical history‘s challenge to Christianity. Belief in miraclesand the afterlife, the dimensions of fanaticism and superstition, andthe nature of religious persecution were the themes that occupied Humeand Gibbon in the making of their critique of Christianity. This bookmakes a valuable contribution to scholarship in a number of fieldsincluding the history of ideas, religious studies, and philosophy. Itwill be of interest to philosophers of religion, historians of ideas,eighteenth-century intellectual historians, scholars of the ScottishEnlightenment, and Hume and Gibbon scholars. | | 出版日期 | Book 1997 | | 关键词 | Christianity; David Hume; Edward Gibbon; Islam; Plato; Religion; enlightenment; enthusiasm; history of ideas | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2235-3 | | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-4933-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-017-2235-3Series ISSN 0066-6610 Series E-ISSN 2215-0307 | | issn_series | 0066-6610 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1997 |
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