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Here it is: “Keep your one purpose steadily and alone in view, and you may promise yourself the attainment of your sole desire, which is to hasten the chariot wheels of redeeming love!” ~Peirce Best, Jerry Rhee On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > Gary R., List: > > GR: We've discussed in at least one of the cosmological threads of late > the way in which Peirce does ascribe one sort of being to God, namely, > Reality. On the other hand, Peirce held that to refer to God as Existing > was clearly wrong, perhaps fetishistic, since existence concerns matter: > action/reaction. The question which all of this raises for Peirce's > conception of the being of Jesus (that is, Christ seen as both the very > incarnation of God and truly man) is one I'm wholly unprepared to consider > at this time. > > > I would *love *to consider this question, but I have no idea whether or > where Peirce might have addressed it. His favorite Gospel was that of > John, but did he ever quote its first chapter? "In the beginning was the > Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God ... And the Word > became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of > the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth." > > Regards, > > Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA > Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman > www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Gary Richmond <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> John, List, >> >> John Sowa wrote: >> >> Gary Richmond wrote: >> >>> I think that [Peirce] was a non-traditional Christian--he once >> >> referred to his views as buddheo-Christian >> >> >> Those two traditions are not necessarily in conflict. >> >> >> >> I agree that there are indeed points where Buddhism and Christianity can >> be seen to intersect, places where one finds correspondences. It is my >> sense that this is more likely so in consideration of zen buddhism and >> mystical christianity than in more traditional forms of either religion >> (although it is not altogether lacking there either, as in , for example, >> the *humanity* expressed in both religions). Merton shows some of these >> correspondences very clearly (I read all I could find by both him and >> Suzuki in my 20's). I would add, however, that I personally find radical >> differences as well, but this is not the place to get into those. >> >> John also wrote: >> >> >> Note, >> for example, the writings of Thomas Merton. For an overview, see >> http://www.americamagazine.org/content/all-things/thomas-mer >> ton-and-dialogue-buddhism >> >> An interesting point in that article: >> In Ihis correspondence with Suzuk [. . .] Merton refers to the doctrine >> of analogy in Aquinas by >> which it was just as legitimate, in one sense, to say of God that >> he is non-being as to affirm God is being, since God so transcends >> being as we know it that any attribution of being as we know it >> would mislead. >> >> >> This is an interesting point indeed. We've discussed in at least one of >> the cosmological threads of late the way in which Peirce does ascribe one >> sort of being to God, namely, Reality. On the other hand, Peirce held that >> to refer to God as Existing was clearly wrong, perhaps fetishistic, since >> existence concerns matter: action/reaction. The question which all of this >> raises for Peirce's conception of the being of Jesus (that is, Christ seen >> as both the very incarnation of God* and* truly man) is one I'm wholly >> unprepared to consider at this time. >> >> Best, >> >> Gary R >> >> [image: Gary Richmond] >> >> *Gary Richmond* >> *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* >> *Communication Studies* >> *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* >> *C 745* >> *718 482-5690 <718%20482-5690>* >> >> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 5:26 PM, John F Sowa <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 10/29/2016 11:55 PM, >>> >>> Gary Richmond wrote: >>> >>>> I think that [Peirce] was a non-traditional Christian--he once >>>> referred to his views as buddheo-Christian >>>> >>> >>> Those two traditions are not necessarily in conflict. Note, >>> for example, the writings of Thomas Merton. For an overview, see >>> http://www.americamagazine.org/content/all-things/thomas-mer >>> ton-and-dialogue-buddhism >>> >>> An interesting point in that article: >>> >>>> In his correspondence with Suzuki (the two finally met in New York >>>> in 1964), Merton refers to the doctrine of analogy in Aquinas by >>>> which it was just as legitimate, in one sense, to say of God that >>>> he is non-being as to affirm God is being, since God so transcends >>>> being as we know it that any attribution of being as we know it >>>> would mislead. >>>> >>> >>> John >> >> > > ----------------------------- > 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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