Charles Sanders Peirce and a Religious Metaphysics of Nature

By Leon Niemoczynski

In this enlightening and original study on the cultivation of a religious understanding of nature, Leon Niemoczynski applies Charles Sanders Peirce's thought on metaphysics to 'ecstatic naturalism, ' the philosophical perspective developed by Robert Corrington. Niemoczynski points to Peirce's phenomenological and metaphysical understanding of possibility-the concept of 'Firstness'-as especially critical to understanding how the divine might be meaningfully encountered in religious experience. He goes on to define his own concept of speculative naturalism, offering a new approach to thinking about nature that joins the essence of pragmatism with the heretical boldness of speculative thought.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739141287
• ISBN13: 9780739141281
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"