Well said Gary. I am currently going through the KJV which is a sort of priestly effort to turn anthropomorphic influence into a brief for arbitrary and often cruel transcendentalism. When all is said and done we live in the immanent frame and are responsible both to ourselves and to the creation around us. Peirce's agapeic teleology is the result of his willingness to share his experiences of transcendence within immanence. This line of thinking is among his most important contributions to our ongoing sense of things.
*@stephencrose <https://twitter.com/stephencrose>* On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Gary Fuhrman <[email protected]> wrote: > A marvelous study of Peirce's "integration of science and religion," > Søren! > > I wonder if you might comment, from your perspective, on one aspect of > Peirce's religious belief which appears relatively 'conservative' to most > of us: his avowed "anthropormorphism." Although Peirce does not see this as > unscientific, it does seem to be in some tension with some of his other > views about science, such as his avoidance of 'psychologism' in logic. > Consider for instance this passage from EP2:152 (second Harvard Lecture, > 1903): > > > > > > "Anthropomorphic" is what pretty much all conceptions are at bottom; > otherwise other roots for the words in which to express them than the old > Aryan roots would have to be found. And in regard to any preference for one > kind of theory over another, it is well to remember that every single truth > of science is due to the affinity of the human soul to the soul of the > universe, imperfect as that affinity no doubt is. To say, therefore, that a > conception is one natural to man, which comes to just about the same thing > as to say that it is anthropomorphic, is as high a recommendation as one > could give to it in the eyes of an Exact Logician. ... I have after long > years of the severest examination become fully satisfied that, other things > being equal, an anthropomorphic conception, whether it makes the best > nucleus for a scientific working hypothesis or not, is far more likely to > be approximately true than one that is not anthropomorphic. Suppose, for > example, it is a question between accepting *Telepathy* or *Spiritualism*. > The former I dare say is the preferable working hypothesis because it can > be more readily subjected to experimental investigation. But as long as > there is no reason for believing it except phenomena that Spiritualism is > equally competent to explain, I think Spiritualism is much the more likely > to be approximately true, as being the more anthropomorphic and natural > idea; and in like manner, as between an old-fashioned God and a modern > patent Absolute, recommend me to the anthropomorphic conception if it is a > question of which is the more likely to be about the truth. > > > > > > Do you see this as perfectly compatible with Peirce's panentheism, or > (more important) his way of integrating religion and science? (I think I > do, but I'd like to hear it from you.) > > > > gary f. > > > > } The human body is the best picture of the soul. [Wittgenstein, PI II.iv) > { > > www.gnusystems.ca/gnoxic.htm }{ gnoxics > > > > > > *From:* Søren Brier [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* 28-May-14 5:56 PM > > *---------------------------------------------* > > > > Peirce's philosophical work proceeds in a way that suggests a new > understanding of science and religion as well as the relation between them, > which transcends our usual way of thinking of these matters in the West > Peirce's triadic semiotics worked on an original solution to the > metaphysical problems connected to the relation between science, > philosophy, mathematics and religion in the modern world. Peirce was truly > a mathematical philosopher, believing that philosophy must begin with logic > resting in turn upon pure mathematics. > > ... > > > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm. > > > > > >
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