Eugene, Edwina, list: If we affix our gaze upon the wet lawn and muse about what it means, what do you think we, as a community, will say?
What if instead we immanate about *quid sit deus*; "What would God be?" one two three...Apollo Themis Zeus...mind body soul Best, Jerry Rhee On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Edwina Taborsky <tabor...@primus.ca> wrote: > Excellent, Eugene - that's exactly how Peirce described the dynamic > semiosis of the universe/Mind. > > Edwina > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Eugene Halton <eugene.w.halto...@nd.edu> > *To:* Peirce List <peirce-l@list.iupui.edu> > *Sent:* Friday, September 23, 2016 4:24 PM > *Subject:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking > > I sent the post below on Sept 19 when there was some discussion of > musement, but it appears it did not go thru so I'm posting again. Apologies > if it did go thru the first time. Gene H > > > …and musement musings… > > Peirce’s “The play of musement” is a beautiful way of putting > it. It is a portal to a way of opening one’s body soul mind to experience. > But what if, on entering that realm of spontaneity and freedom through the > “play of musement” portal, one begins to realize there are shadings of > musement as various as, for example, the varieties of signs Peirce > outlined? > > And what if you allowed yourself to enter the realm of > musement and found your Indo-European or related noun-centered language > left behind? A realm where your noun-God, your concept-God, could not > enter? You have entered the musement language world, alive in verb > processes, occasionally stopping at a noun here and there, but never > lingering; alive in the wonder. > > In this realm you realize through energetic projaculation > that the Neglected Argument lies not in picturing Big Daddy Noun-concept in > the Sky, fixed and unspontaneous, but rather, as D. H. Lawrence put it in > describing Walt Whitman’s poetry, “lies in the sheer appreciation of the > instant moment, life surging itself into utterance at its very > well-head…The quivering nimble hour of the present, this is the quick of > Time. This is the immanence.” > > You conjecture that not only, as Peirce put it, “When we gaze > upon the multifariousness of nature we are looking straight into the face > of a living spontaneity” (Peirce, 1887, 6.553), but that you yourself are > participant in that living spontaneity. You realize that Peirce is not > claiming “intelligent design” for the universe, but rather an “intelligent > sign” argument energizing into being, a universe in active creation. > > And there you find yourself, back from the play of musement, yet still > immersed in the living spontaneity. > > Gene Halton > > ------------------------------ > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > peirce-L@list.iupui.edu . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to l...@list.iupui.edu with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > peirce-L@list.iupui.edu . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to l...@list.iupui.edu with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > >
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