Two-person talks

Usage examples of dialogues.

The arguments in the Dialogues assume an important 18th century distinction between natural religion and revealed religion.

The Dialogues, though, deals exclusively with the subject of natural religion and in this work Hume offers his most systematic critique of the subject.

I call it Dialogues on natural Religion: Some of my Friends flatter me, that it is the best thing I ever wrote.

Again, though, he attempts to diffuse the issue by commenting that his Dialogues are less extreme than his Enquiry, presumably meaning his essay on miracles.

I also ordain, that if my Dialogues from whatever Cause, be not publishd within two Years and a half of my Death .

The clamour against the Dialogues, if published first, might hurt for some time the sale of the new edition of his works, and when the clamour has a little subsided the Dialogues may hereafter occasion a quicker sale of another edition.

The second review of the Dialogues which appeared in the London Review was more flattering.

Part XII of the Dialogues in which Philo reduces the conflict between atheism and theism to a verbal dispute.

In recent years there has been an even greater diversity of interpretations of the Dialogues and many commentators argue that Hume was not as critical of natural religion as his reputation would have us believe.

It is through these various dialogues that the underlying message of the dreams is ordinarily discovered, as described below.

Similar dialogues can be had with the same person many times and with many wise people.

It was with such dialogues that we passed away the interval between our amorous transports on the last five or six nights of my stay.

There are so many details of each life, these dialogues really only can be effective for the broader concepts.

M: Somehow, in these dialogues you received the idea that they either based in science initially, and then extended to the other attentions, or perhaps somewhere in conflict.

Lucian consist largely of dialogues, in which he battled against what he considered to be false opinions by bringing the satire of Aristophanes and the sarcasm of Menippus into disputations that sought chiefly to throw down false idols before setting up the true.