RE: [PEIRCE-L] RE: PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-06-23 Thread Gary Fuhrman
Gary M, to answer your question about my previous post, where I wrote But this general person [God] is still not real independently of the believer’s belief — My point was that the pragmatic effects of belief in [a benign] God are real and observable only because the believers have actually

RE: [PEIRCE-L] Re: PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-06-23 Thread Gary Fuhrman
: [PEIRCE-L] Re: PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 My experience with NA has lead me to similar understandings. If God and love are synonymous terms, as even many fundamentalists will agree. And if love (justice) are Real forces as Peirce says

[PEIRCE-L] Re: PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-06-23 Thread Gary Fuhrman
...@olympus.net] Sent: 22-Jun-14 8:53 PM To: Jeffrey Brian Downard; Gary Fuhrman; peirce-l@list iupui. edu Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 My experience with NA has lead me to similar understandings. If God and love

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2014-06-23 Thread Edwina Taborsky
: Phyllis Chiasson [mailto:ath...@olympus.net] Sent: 22-Jun-14 8:53 PM To: Jeffrey Brian Downard; Gary Fuhrman; peirce-l@list iupui. edu Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Re: PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 My experience with NA has lead me to similar

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2014-06-23 Thread Stephen C. Rose
)] { www.gnusystems.ca/gnoxic.htm }{ gnoxics *From:* Phyllis Chiasson [mailto:ath...@olympus.net ath...@olympus.net] *Sent:* 22-Jun-14 8:53 PM *To:* Jeffrey Brian Downard; Gary Fuhrman; peirce-l@list iupui. edu *Subject:* [PEIRCE-L] Re: PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science

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2014-06-22 Thread Gary Moore
Fuhrman [g...@gnusystems.ca] Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2014 5:28 AM To: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Having just caught up with this thread, I’d like to add one belated comment.   Peirce’s God is ens

RE: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-06-22 Thread Jeffrey Brian Downard
...@gnusystems.ca] Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2014 5:22 AM To: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Thanks, Jeff, this helps to clarify the issue. Your quote from CP 6.295 is a kind of precursor to the Neglected Argument

[PEIRCE-L] Re: PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-06-22 Thread Phyllis Chiasson
Associate Professor Department of Philosophy NAU (o) 523-8354 From: Gary Fuhrman [g...@gnusystems.ca] Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2014 5:22 AM To: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Thanks, Jeff, this helps to clarify

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2014-06-20 Thread Catherine Legg
; Steven Ericsson-Zenith *Cc:* peirce-l@list.iupui.edu *Subject:* SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Dear Stev(ph)en and list About the meaning of spirituality. I am presently reading Basarab Nicolescu (2014): *From modernity to Cosmodernity

Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-06-18 Thread Stephen C. Rose
In a few words, Peirce offers a context for his theology (from Pragmatism In Retrospect - A Last Formulation. I, for one, heartily admit that a Humanism that does not pretend to be a science, but only an instinct, like a bird's power of flight, but purified by meditation, is the most precious

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2014-06-17 Thread John Collier
; Catherine Legg; Gary Richmond; g...@gnusystems.ca Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Emne: Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 I concur with Edwina; I see no reason to call the real here 'god'. I have taken a similar line in my classes for decades when looking

Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-06-17 Thread John Collier
: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 9:06 AM Subject: SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Dear John What term other than God would you find better? We are talking about the ultimate reality that holds everything else together

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2014-06-17 Thread Søren Brier
...@ukzn.ac.za] Sendt: 17. juni 2014 16:28 Til: Søren Brier; John Collier; Edwina Taborsky; Catherine Legg; Gary Richmond; g...@gnusystems.ca Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Emne: Re: SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Well, Søren, I would agree, as implicitly

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2014-06-17 Thread Matt Faunce
Let's look at the ethics of religious terminology in light of efficient cause and final cause. The authors of the New Testament were members of a fertility cult and the term Jesus was a thinly veiled code word for a psychedelic mushroom. (Source: the Dead Sea Scroll scholar, John Allegro). This

Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-06-17 Thread Matt Faunce
On Jun 17, 2014, at 1:16 PM, Matt Faunce mattfau...@gmail.com wrote: In arithmetic the term 'division' once meant that your result could only amount to something less than the original amount. Today the term has been expanded to where it can be used to represent ratios like 2/6. Wow.

Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-06-17 Thread Clark Goble
On Jun 17, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Edwina Taborsky tabor...@primus.ca wrote: I wouldn't speculate that Peirce wanted God to be a 'thing-in-itself'. There's no evidence, to my knowledge, of that. Only reason I bring that up is more because of the place of God in traditional Christian theology. My

Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-06-02 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
List, Stephen: I fully concur with your characterization of the context of what is being attempted with the categorization of a particular post as being Peircian or not; or of things Peircian or not.. From my view, the richness of the mind / writings of CSP are so vast and far-flung and so

Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-06-02 Thread Stephen C. Rose
Thanks Jerry. Nice to wake up to. I think we can generally say if it is clearly dualistic and the reasoning is binary, we-they, my-way-or-the-highway, we don't agree. If the thought is triadic, reflecting thinking in threes as a conscious dealing with signs, we are at least in the ball-park,

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2014-06-02 Thread Edwina Taborsky
; Phyllis Chiasson Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 7:27 AM Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Thanks Jerry. Nice to wake up to. I think we can generally say if it is clearly dualistic and the reasoning is binary, we-they, my-way

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2014-06-02 Thread Stephen C. Rose
@list.iupui.edu ; Phyllis Chiasson ath...@olympus.net *Sent:* Monday, June 02, 2014 7:27 AM *Subject:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Thanks Jerry. Nice to wake up to. I think we can generally say if it is clearly dualistic and the reasoning

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2014-06-02 Thread Edwina Taborsky
Message - From: Stephen C. Rose To: Edwina Taborsky Cc: Jerry LR Chandler ; Peirce List ; Phyllis Chiasson Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 10:12 AM Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 There is no gainsaying that dualism is real

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2014-06-02 Thread Søren Brier
Chandlermailto:jerry_lr_chand...@me.com ; Peirce Listmailto:Peirce-L@list.iupui.edu ; Phyllis Chiassonmailto:ath...@olympus.net Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Let us agree to disagree lest we get into a dualistic warp. I

[PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-06-01 Thread Steven Ericsson-Zenith
Elizabeth Lorena Johansson; Claudia Jacques (c...@claudiajacques.org); Elisabeth Sørup; Seth Miller; Leslie Combs *Emne:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Contradictory and I doubt Peircean. Steven On Monday, May 19, 2014, Søren

Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-06-01 Thread Stephen C. Rose
...@claudiajacques.org); Elisabeth Sørup; Seth Miller; Leslie Combs *Emne:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Contradictory and I doubt Peircean. Steven On Monday, May 19, 2014, Søren Brier sb@cbs.dk wrote: 1. God is real but does not exist

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2014-06-01 Thread Søren Brier
01:19 Til: Søren Brier Cc: peirce-l@list.iupui.edumailto:peirce-l@list.iupui.edu; Kathrine Elizabeth Lorena Johansson; Claudia Jacques (c...@claudiajacques.orgmailto:c...@claudiajacques.org); Elisabeth Sørup; Seth Miller; Leslie Combs Emne: Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God

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2014-05-31 Thread Søren Brier
Johansson; Claudia Jacques (c...@claudiajacques.org); Elisabeth Sørup; Seth Miller; Leslie Combs Emne: Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Contradictory and I doubt Peircean. Steven On Monday, May 19, 2014, Søren Brier sb@cbs.dkmailto:sb

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2014-05-31 Thread Phyllis Chiasson
Stephen, I don't understand your post. Phyllis Stephen C. Rose stever...@gmail.com wrote: Peircean Yikes. The problem is that anything we do about Peirce of anyone really is characterization which I hold to be at worst a curse and at best a brake on the inherent freedom of anyone to grow,

Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-05-31 Thread Stephen C. Rose
Phyllis...I feel that if I say Peirce is (any characteristic) or say that of anyone I am in violation of the command judge not that you be not judged. I see even Peircean as a sort of litmus test (are you are aren't you?). Does this explain it? Cheers, S *@stephencrose

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2014-05-31 Thread Stephen C. Rose
The specific designation I was replying to was a one line post which which said an article about triadic physics was not Peircean so I shall let that be my example. I have sensed from Peirce the suggestion that the self itself is vague. And that the community is important to the disposition of

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2014-05-30 Thread Steven Ericsson-Zenith
Contradictory and I doubt Peircean. Steven On Monday, May 19, 2014, Søren Brier sb@cbs.dk wrote: 1. God is real but does not exist: so the best way to worship him is through the religion of science I thought this sums up nicely Section 9.6 in Kees’ book and was a good way to start

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2014-05-24 Thread Gary Fuhrman
://www.gnusystems.ca/gnoxic.htm www.gnusystems.ca/gnoxic.htm }{ gnoxics From: Gary Richmond [mailto:gary.richm...@gmail.com] Sent: 23-May-14 11:44 PM To: Phyllis Chiasson Cc: Søren Brier; Stephen C. Rose; Gary Fuhrman; Peirce List Subject: Re: SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science

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2014-05-24 Thread Gary Richmond
; Stephen C. Rose; Gary Fuhrman; Peirce List *Subject:* Re: SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Phyllis, Gene, Soren, Stephen, Gary, Ben, list, I earlier quoted Ehrenreich as writing: *[T]he world flamed into life.* *There were

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2014-05-23 Thread Eugene Halton
of the natural light does allow for the longer evolutionary perspective. Gene From: Gary Fuhrman [mailto:g...@gnusystems.ca] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 11:21 AM To: 'Peirce List' Subject: RE: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Søren, list, Peirce

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2014-05-23 Thread Søren Brier
use the term here? Best Søren Fra: Eugene Halton [mailto:eugene.w.halto...@nd.edu] Sendt: 23. maj 2014 17:38 Til: 'Peirce List' Emne: RE: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 I agree with Gary Fuhrman's point

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2014-05-21 Thread Stephen C. Rose
nothing to the growth of concrete reasonableness, which he virtually equates with the evolution of God. gary f. *From:* Stephen C. Rose [mailto:stever...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 21-May-14 11:04 AM *To:* Gary Fuhrman *Cc:* Peirce List *Subject:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section

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2014-05-21 Thread Benjamin Udell
List *Subject:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 For starters this unpublished fragment noted in Brent (2nd ed) as CSP to PC [20 July 1890) (L 77) which reads in part:: Since then God is using me ... should I not be content

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2014-05-21 Thread Søren Brier
Søren Fra: Gary Fuhrman [mailto:g...@gnusystems.ca] Sendt: 21. maj 2014 17:21 Til: 'Peirce List' Emne: RE: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Søren, list, Peirce did not use the term panentheism because it wasn't available

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2014-05-21 Thread Søren Brier
from myself, leaving my cares forgotten among the lilies. Best Søren Fra: Benjamin Udell [mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com] Sendt: 21. maj 2014 20:18 Til: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Emne: Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science

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2014-05-21 Thread Søren Brier
Sorry, It was Ben who found the quote about walking in the garden. Søren Fra: Benjamin Udell [mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com] Sendt: 21. maj 2014 20:18 Til: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Emne: Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Quick

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2014-05-21 Thread Gary Fuhrman
, leaving my cares forgotten among the lilies. Best Søren Fra: Benjamin Udell [mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com] Sendt: 21. maj 2014 20:18 Til: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Emne: Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

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2014-05-21 Thread efeb
Subject: SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Dear Gary and list Peirce seems keen to work with the foundation of all religions, which is one way to characterize the pure types of mysticism and the theory of collecting them into a perennial

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2014-05-21 Thread Søren Brier
. maj 2014 23:00 Til: Søren Brier Cc: g...@gnusystems.ca; Peirce-L@list.iupui.edu Emne: Re: SV: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Soren: Forgive my intrusion and brevity. This is a beatiful message. In Spanish we would say: muy hermoso. Eduardo

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2014-05-21 Thread Stephen C. Rose
*Fra:* Benjamin Udell [mailto:bud...@nyc.rr.com bud...@nyc.rr.com] *Sendt:* 21. maj 2014 20:18 *Til:* peirce-l@list.iupui.edu *Emne:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1 Quick followup on L 482 or whatever it really is: Douglas R. Anderson

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2014-05-20 Thread Stephen C. Rose
I think within the NA text there is ample basis for inferring that at the time of its writing CSP had long practiced what he advocated - a damningly unstructured mode of thinking that he advocated almost universally and certainly for persons untrained in the philosophy that is the basis for most

[PEIRCE-L] De Waal seminar chapter 9, section on God, science and religion: text 1

2014-05-19 Thread Søren Brier
1. God is real but does not exist: so the best way to worship him is through the religion of science I thought this sums up nicely Section 9.6 in Kees' book and was a good way to start the discussion of: God, science and religion. Peirce's theory of the relation between science and religion is