6.519 dispatches any notion that Pierce or anyone else can know anything beyond death though he leaves the matter up to God. He's certain (with reason) that one survives in one's work and suggests that that is also what Jesus believed.
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Gary Fuhrman <[email protected]> wrote: > Ben, you wrote:**** > > ** ** > > [[Peirce believed in a spiritual consciousness, a > soul-consciousness, confusable with social and carnal kinds of consciousness > but becoming clear to one, as Peirce came to believe, in surviving the > body's death. ]]**** > > ** ** > > Can you cite a text where Peirce says this? He does speak of a “spiritual > consciousness” but i haven’t seen any place where he speaks of this as the > consciousness of an individual soul surviving the body’s death, or expresses > belief in that kind of afterlife. He argues rather against it in CP 6.548-52 > (1887), and again in CP 6.520-21 (c.1906), though he also says that the > possibility can’t be ruled out, precisely because it’s virtually impossible > to investigate. The “immortality” of which he speaks “in the light of > synechism” is of a very different kind, it seems to me, to which the > survival of the *individual* consciousness or ‘soul’ is quite irrelevant.* > *** > > ** ** > > Gary F.**** > > ** ** > > } Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the > contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. [Thoreau] {**** > > ** ** > > www.gnusystems.ca/gnoxic.htm }{ home**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* C S Peirce discussion list [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Benjamin Udell > *Sent:* August-08-11 8:15 PM**** > > ** ** > > Drake,**** > > **** > > **** > > For Peirce, truth is immutable so for him in some sense all truths are > eternal. Perhaps in "Immortality in the Light of Synechism" he was thinking > about something like truths _*about*_ eternity, the soul, etc.**** > > **** > > Not having been religious since I was a kid, I don't easily put myself into > that frame of mind.**** > > **** > > I don't know whether he thought that that which he called eternal truths > require or enliven spiritual consciousness. He might have thought that it > helps to have lively spiritual consciousness in order to apprehend eternal > spiritual truths in the right spirit, to learn of them and learn from them, > and even that such truths don't come through well when translated into > everyday conversation, but I just don't know. I also wonder whether he > thought that such truths could be equally well simple or complex like a > scientific theory; it can be pretty hard to guess about such things with > Peirce.**** > > ** ** > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L > listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to > [email protected] with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body > of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to > [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to [email protected] with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to [email protected]
