Edwina, List: ET: Prayer is, in my view, a psychological form of behaviour - among ALL human populations.
Okay, but clearly this is not *Peirce's *view. Again, he states plainly that prayer is a universal human instinct by which the soul expresses consciousness of its relation to God. ET: That is - since our knowledge base is not innate but learned, then, homo sapiens must function as a collective. On the contrary, according to Peirce, *some *of our "knowledge base" is instinctive rather than learned. After all, "unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature, at all" (CP 6.477, EP 2:444, 1908) ET: As a side note, to my awareness, Peirce's cosmology doesn't refer to 'god', [ie, compare with Aquinas' and Aristotle's unmoved Mover, First Cause, etc]. Only if one blatantly begs the question by insisting that "A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God" is somehow *not *an exposition of Peirce's cosmology. I obviously think that it is, given that I wrote a paper entitled "A Neglected Additament: Peirce on Logic, Cosmology, and the Reality of God" (https://tidsskrift.dk/signs/article/view/103187). Regards, Jon S. On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 6:26 PM Edwina Taborsky <tabor...@primus.ca> wrote: > List > > Prayer is, in my view, a psychological form of behaviour - among ALL human > populations. > > It goes along with the awareness, in our human species, of our > necessary functioning as a collective. > > That is - since our knowledge base is not innate but learned, then, homo > sapiens must function as a collective. The collective is the site of both > stored and new knowledge. > > I think that this fact - the fragility of knowledge - means that human > beings are aware that the world functions in a far more complex manner than > their knowledge base is aware of. So - this awareness of the complexity and > magnitude of the universe leads to the development of communal narratives > about birth, death, cosmology. And the fact that our species lives as a > collective brings in awareness of the rules required for communal living; > ie, morality - which is made authoritative by appeals to stronger and > 'higher' powers [gods]. > > There isn't a population in the world, as far as I know, that has not > developed an awareness and narrative of superior authorities than the human > being [whether it be spirits, multiple gods, singular god, etc]. But my > view is that this is due to the unique nature of the human species' > socially generated knowledge base and communal living requirements. > > As a side note, to my awareness, Peirce's cosmology doesn't refer to > 'god', [ie, compare with Aquinas' and Aristotle's unmoved Mover, First > Cause, etc]. > > Edwina > > On Thu 09/09/21 6:29 PM , Jon Alan Schmidt jonalanschm...@gmail.com sent: > > Gary R., Phyllis, List: > > Peirce did have this to say about prayer. > > CSP: We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact > constitutes an invitation from God to pray. And in fact there is found to > be not only soulagement in prayer, but great spiritual good and moral > strength. I do not see why prayer may not be efficacious, or if not the > prayer exactly, the state of mind of which the prayer is nothing more than > the expression, namely the soul's consciousness of its relation to God, > which is nothing more than precisely the pragmatistic meaning of the name > of God; so that, in that sense, prayer is simply calling upon the name of > the Lord. (CP 6.516, c. 1906) > > > Regards, > > Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA > Structural Engineer, Synechist Philosopher, Lutheran Christian > www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt > > On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 6:46 PM Gary Richmond <gary.richm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Phyllis, List, >> >> PC: As I recall, Peirce said nothing about worship, devotion or heaven >> or hell. >> >> GR: I think this is basically correct, although he does speak of a >> simple, natural belief open to the humblest man or woman; he hasn't much >> good to say about most theologians, however, as it is they who confuse >> simple faith with, for example, notions of heaven and hell, etc. >> >> PC: His take on God was based on the conduct of human behavior. >> >> The conduct of a great man's behavior is offered by Peirce as a rough >> analogy to God. But the last of the 1898 Lectures, for example there are >> others) can be seen to position his idea of God within a vast cosmological >> context. >> >> Best, >> >> Gary R >> >> “Let everything happen to you >> Beauty and terror >> Just keep going >> No feeling is final” >> ― Rainer Maria Rilke >> Gary Richmond >> Philosophy and Critical Thinking >> Communication Studies >> LaGuardia College of the City University of New York >> >
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