*"‘Belief. Truth. Values. These are **relative things’ ” (LR 113). Percy, however, believes in absolutes."*
The above from the dissertation speaks volumes to me. Percy's Catholicism can hardly be perceived as transcendent because it is based on supposition. Peirce believed (I think) that such transcendence as he knew was demonstrable, provable. The only way transcendence can be understood going forward is as something accessible within the immanent frame, in everyday life. I believe the new paradigm will come by taking one word of the above - values - and suggesting that there are indeed ontological values and that these are willed. Precisely for this reason they can be proved to be the engine of such progress as we have in history. I think the words above contain impossibility of Percy's position. His Catholicism is a belief which to him may be true. The only thing that breaks into the transcendent and absolute are willed values. Such as come to life in the experience of those who achieve a measure of justice in the world, of love in their lives, of life beyond the binary. Percy understood the problem but not the answer. Peirce understood both. *ShortFormContent at Blogger* <http://shortformcontent.blogspot.com/> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Jon Awbrey <[email protected]> wrote: > Kenneth, > > Thanks, very interesting. > > Here's a slightly shorter link, with out the search operation: > > http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/**cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=** > 1079&context=english_diss&sei-**redir=1<http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1079&context=english_diss&sei-redir=1> > > Regards, > > Jon > > > Kenneth Ketner wrote: > >> digitally available at >> >> http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/**cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=** >> 1079&context=english_diss&sei-**redir=1#search=%22semeiotic%** >> 20religion%22<http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1079&context=english_diss&sei-redir=1#search=%22semeiotic%20religion%22> >> > > -- > > academia: > http://independent.academia.**edu/JonAwbrey<http://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey> > inquiry list: > http://stderr.org/pipermail/**inquiry/<http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/> > mwb: > http://www.mywikibiz.com/**Directory:Jon_Awbrey<http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey> > oeiswiki: > http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:**Jon_Awbrey<http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey> > word press blog 1: > http://jonawbrey.wordpress.**com/<http://jonawbrey.wordpress.com/> > word press blog 2: http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/ > > > ------------------------------**------------------------------** > --------------------- > 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]
