Jerry, list,
I wonder whether there was more than one Schleiermacher. Or did
Schleiermacher start out in theology? Or maybe Peirce was in some sort
of error or insufficient information about Schleiermacher in the first
quote below. Anyway, here are the results. In the third quote, Peirce
credits Schleiermacher's school of thought with the invention of the
word _/normative/_.
Contributions to _The Nation_ 3:93
75 (11 September 1902) 209-211: PAULSEN'S KANT
At any rate, it was exclusively in the way of thought that Kant can
be deemed great, if he was great at all. There are different kinds
of thought: there is mathematical thought, that works by diagrams;
there is the thought which, from observing a fragment, divines a
whole; and there is logical analysis. Kant was certainly not a
mathematician. In scientific theorizing, however, he was decidedly
strong. He is accounted by astronomers the author of the Nebular
Hypothesis. In his younger days, he was a physicist; and he always
remained a physicist who had taken up philosophy (naturally, less
strikingly so as his powers declined), contrasting in this regard
with Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and Schleiermacher, not to speak of
Baader, Günther, etc., who were all theological students, and as
strongly with Jacobi, Fries, Krause, etc., who came to philosophy by
the route of theology; and even more or less, with Schopenhauer,
Herbart, Beneke, and all the others before Fechner and Lotze, who,
at any rate, breathe rather the atmosphere of the seminary than that
of the laboratory. Every scientific reader feels the philosopher of
Königsberg to be of his kindred.
CP 2.38 from "Minute Logic", Ch. 1, 1902
Of logics which in modern times more or less take for granted
special systems of metaphysics, the earliest were a series of
Aristotelian treatises. [....] Leibnitzianism, systematized by
Wolff, numbered its logics by scores. Kantianism had its Krug and
Esser, to mention only those of whom English readers are likely to
know something; and every subsequent German philosopher, Baader,
Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schleiermacher, Schopenhauer, von
Hartmann, Dühring, down to Häckel, has been followed by his train of
logicians. Thus, a large proportion of all the logics that have ever
been written have more or less pursued this vicious order of thought.
CP 1.575, from "Minute Logic", Ch. 4, 1902-3
The word _/normative/_ was invented in the school of Schleiermacher.
The majority of writers who make use of it tell us that there are
three normative sciences, logic, esthetics, and ethics, the
doctrines of the true, the beautiful, and the good, a triad of
ideals which has been recognized since antiquity. On the other hand,
we quite commonly find the term "normative science" restricted to
logic and ethics; and Schleiermacher himself states their purposes
in a way that seems to give room for no third. The one, he says,
relates to making thought conform to being, the other, to making
being conform to thought. There seems to be much justice in this
restriction. [....]
Best, Ben
On 4/14/2014 9:21 PM, Jerry LR Chandler wrote:
Ben, List
On Apr 14, 2014, at 8:06 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote:
He mentions Schleiermacher a few times in passing.
Would you be so kind as to post the references to Schleiermacher?
He played a critical role in the trio of students (with Schelling and
a poet whose name I forget,) who moved forward from Kantian
foundations, at least according to Roberts.
I have spent some time looking for translations of Schleiermacher's
work without success, unfortunately. He was a chemist and in Germany,
chemistry then and now, plays a substantial role in public discourse.
Cheers
Jerry
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