Four Dissertations by David Hume
A set of philosophical essays that analyze human emotion, aesthetics, and religion from a skeptical, empirical perspective: one essay traces religion to natural fears and hopes and critiques arguments for divine design and miracles; another treats the passions as motivating sentiments shaped by sympathy and habit; a third explains the paradox of tragic pleasure as a refined mingling of pity and terror; and a final piece develops a theory of taste, arguing that aesthetic judgment depends on cultivated sensibility, experience, and common human nature rather than fixed rules.
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- 1757
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