Friday, February 16, 2007

Peirce on Prayer

CP 6.518. . . . .As I say, the inquiry into efficacity is distasteful to me because that is not the motive of my prayers. Still, I should like to have an inquiry instituted into the matter. But looking more closely at actual prayer itself, perhaps at least "the state of mind" that is "the soul's consciousness of its relation to God" constitutes " precisely the pragmatistic meaning of the name of God" (but note that praying for "specific things" is held to be "childish. . . yet innocent")

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