Vincent G. Potter
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780823216154
- eISBN:
- 9780823284832
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823216154.003.0012
- Subject:
- Philosophy, American Philosophy
This chapter explains that religion for Charles Sanders Peirce is a topic of “vital importance” and so is a matter more of the heart than of the head. He writes that all sensible talk about religion, ...
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This chapter explains that religion for Charles Sanders Peirce is a topic of “vital importance” and so is a matter more of the heart than of the head. He writes that all sensible talk about religion, morals, and aesthetics must be common-place, all reasoning about them unsound, and all study of them narrow and sordid. When it is a question of great decisions affecting one's lives, it is the wise man who knows that sentiment and instinct are sure guides, while reasoning about such matters is out of place since that faculty is a notoriously fallible instrument. In addition, the chapter presents Peirce's argument for God's reality: the Humble Argument, sometimes called the Neglected Argument.Less
This chapter explains that religion for Charles Sanders Peirce is a topic of “vital importance” and so is a matter more of the heart than of the head. He writes that all sensible talk about religion, morals, and aesthetics must be common-place, all reasoning about them unsound, and all study of them narrow and sordid. When it is a question of great decisions affecting one's lives, it is the wise man who knows that sentiment and instinct are sure guides, while reasoning about such matters is out of place since that faculty is a notoriously fallible instrument. In addition, the chapter presents Peirce's argument for God's reality: the Humble Argument, sometimes called the Neglected Argument.
Gary Slater
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- December 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198753230
- eISBN:
- 9780191814846
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198753230.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Theology
This chapter contextualizes the theological speculations warranted by the nested continua model. It begins with a brief analysis of Peirce’s own writings on religion, particularly his Monist series ...
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This chapter contextualizes the theological speculations warranted by the nested continua model. It begins with a brief analysis of Peirce’s own writings on religion, particularly his Monist series of 1891 through 1893 and his “Neglected Argument for the Reality of God,” from 1908. Following this, it presents some of the most important figures in terms of the religious dimension of Peirce’s thought. The relevant works of Michael Raposa and Robert Corrington are discussed, with acknowledgement as well for such younger scholars of Peirce and religion as Anette Ejsing, Brandon Daniel-Hughes, and Leon Niemoczynski. The problems this chapter addresses are: how to think systematically about the religious dimension of Peirce’s writings; as well as how to trace the trajectories that Peircean philosophical theology has taken in recent decades.Less
This chapter contextualizes the theological speculations warranted by the nested continua model. It begins with a brief analysis of Peirce’s own writings on religion, particularly his Monist series of 1891 through 1893 and his “Neglected Argument for the Reality of God,” from 1908. Following this, it presents some of the most important figures in terms of the religious dimension of Peirce’s thought. The relevant works of Michael Raposa and Robert Corrington are discussed, with acknowledgement as well for such younger scholars of Peirce and religion as Anette Ejsing, Brandon Daniel-Hughes, and Leon Niemoczynski. The problems this chapter addresses are: how to think systematically about the religious dimension of Peirce’s writings; as well as how to trace the trajectories that Peircean philosophical theology has taken in recent decades.
