Peirce and Religion (eBook)

Knowledge, Transformation, and the Reality of God

Roger Ward (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
184 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3151-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Charles Sanders Peirce developed a mature Christian faith under the influence of his father Benjamin Peirce and Frederic Dan Huntington, a teacher and pastor at Harvard. Peirce’s Christian self-understanding and concern shape the development of his philosophical logic as well as the development and refinement of pragmatism.

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Charles Sanders Peirce is one of the most original voices in American philosophy. His scientific career and his goal of proving scientific logic provide rich material for philosophical development. Peirce was also a life-long Christian and member of the Episcopal Church. Roger Ward traces the impact of Peirce's religion and Christianity on the development of Peirce's philosophy. Peirce's religious framework is a key to his development of pragmatism and normative science in terms of knowledge and moral transformation. Peirce's argument for the reality of God is a culmination of both his religious devotion and his life-long philosophical development.

Autor

Roger Ward is professor of philosophy at Georgetown College.

Inhalt

IntroductionI. Why Peirce, Why ChristianityII. Conversion to LogicIII. Conversion to CommunityIV. Peirce’s Work for the Church: Waiting for GodV. Knowledge and TransformationVI. Real Obedience: from Pragmatism to Pragmaticism VII. Science and the Persistent Reality of GodBibliography

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: American Philosophy Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: american christianity • American Philosophy • Augustinian • Charles Sanders Peirce • C.S. Peirce • Episcopal Church • Logic of science • normative science • Philosophy of Religion • pragmaticism • Pragmatism • Religious Studies • Semiotics • Theology • Trinitarian theology
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-3151-2 / 1498531512
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3151-1 / 9781498531511