984. logic

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If; as Hartshorne holds; logic and ethics; as well as aesthetics are; in Peirce's words; "normative sciences/' whose rules apply to rational beings; not to all beings; as do those of metaphysics; why couldn't the same thing be said about theology?
On such a view; theology formulates the rules that are normative for rational beings insofar as they think and speak (;;-think; say; and do) concerning God; or the strictly ultimate reality that theistic religions call "God/, in its meaning for us; as distinct from its structure in itself.
But my difficulty with this whole way of thinking and speaking is that metaphysics is; in its way; a normative science; also, as, indeed, is any special science, in its way.
Spring 1991
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