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Karey Perkins
wrote:
But, what I didn't pick up until I started on his
non-fiction (which is slower going than the fiction, I'm still on "Signposts in
a Strange Land" and haven't made it to the others yet), is that he is also NOT a
dualist! Of course it's obvious after the fact (Love in the Ruins and Tom
More's lapsometer measuring the physical/spiritual split; the "San Andreas
fault"...). This also relates to our
immanence/transcendence discussion -- what Percy's saying is he's not a
dualist.
So what is
he?
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Dear Karey,
Enjoyed your post! I don't know what Percy is or
considered himself philosophically. A Christian of course --perhaps
a Christian existentialist of the Peircean pragmaticist variety. I think
he may have seen language as in some way mediating the dualism of mind and
body. Thanks for the fun and illuminating
comments.
Jim Piat
I wonder about the relationship between religion and
philosophy. They both address some of the same questions. Is it
mostly a matter of faith vs. reason? Faith were reason
fails?
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