Jerry, List,
Indeed, there is a strong resonance from Peirce to Camus —
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2013/03/26/a-determined-soul/
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2013/03/30/pragmatism-meets-absurdity/
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2013/04/11/slip-slidin-away/
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2013/04/22/absurdum-quid/
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2013/04/23/revolt-freedom-passion/
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2013/05/06/rock-on/
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2013/05/22/strangers-in-paradise/
And Peirce of course has mapped out the mountain —
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/05/31/definition-and-determination-4/
Regards,
Jon
On 1/11/2017 4:45 PM, Jerry Rhee wrote:
Jon, list:
“At the very end of his long effort measured by skyless space and time
without depth, the purpose is achieved. Then Sisyphus watches the stone
rush down in a few moments toward that lower world whence he will have to
push it up again toward the summit. He goes back down to the plain.
It is during that return, that pause, that Sisyphus interests me. A face
that toils so close to stones is already stone itself! I see that man going
back down with a heavy yet measured step toward the torment of which he
will never know the end…
If this myth is tragic, that is because its hero is conscious. Where would
his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?
The workman of today works everyday in his life at the same tasks, and his
fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it
becomes conscious.
One does not discover the absurd without being tempted to write a manual
of happiness. "What!---by such narrow ways--?" There is but one world,
however. Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They
are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily
springs from the absurd. Discovery. It happens as well that the felling
of the absurd springs from happiness.
… The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
~ Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
I imagine Peirce happy and it’s not simply the struggle that was enough to
fill his heart. Rather, he knew that the harvest has come, at last, and to
him, that harvest seems a wild one. His discovery was a tool to enhance
movement.
Best,
Jerry Rhee
On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Jon Awbrey <[email protected]> wrote:
Jon, List,
I've been away and haven't been able to track the entire thread
but it's ground we've been over many times before and the bits
I've been able to sample seem to fall into familiar patterns.
Generally speaking I haven't observed that much difficulty with the
use of these words in logic, math, science, or even to a large extent
in ordinary language, probably because practical use demands a modicum
of flexibility and context-sensitivity from the relevant language users.
It is only when people try to make metaphysical hay out of these simple
signs that a certain rigidity sets in and disputes of a quasi-religious
character begin to rule the day.
Regards,
Jon
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