Subject: Fideism: WP, LW, CSP
From: Gregory J Zuschlag (zoosh@JUNO.COM)
Date: Wed Jun 16 1999 - 12:27:19 EDT
On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:19:03 -0500 Ken Ketner writes:
>Marshall Smith and group: I take a dissenting view on Wittgenstein's
>TRACTATUS. It is basically an essay on mysticism. So faith is the
>basic item in it (the most important paragraph numbers are at the end,
and
>about mysticism, not as a theory, but as something lived). So I argue
>that your setting of the context is upside down: not faith discussed
>in the context of logic, but logic discussed in the context of mysticism
>(faith, not to quibble). LW was a fideist, like Tolstoy or William
>James. Charley Peirce was a closet fideist. As I grasp fideism, it
>states that faith is basic, is primitive, and all else arises from it.
>Perhaps Walker was a fideist. I do know that he respected LW.
Prof. Ketner,
Thank you for making these distinctions. Would you be willing to provide
more clarification on:
--What do you see is the nature of fideism (more than above def.)?
--What does it contrasts with philosophically?
--What is a "closet fideist"?
-- Why is CSP a one?
--Is WP really a fideist?
Any help on this would be immensely appreciated. Thanks.
Greg
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