Jerry, list,
Well, that's cleared up about Schleiermacher's pursuits. And the second
quote needs to be read with a bit of care; it took me a re-reading to
notice that Peirce didn't say that Schleiermacher treated a special
metaphysics as prior to logic, in 'a vicious order of thought'; Peirce
said that Schleiermacher was one of various philosophers whose
philosophy (whose metaphysics, I think Peirce means) one group or
another of logicians treated as prior to their logic (in 'a vicious
order of thought').
I didn't know that Peirce criticized the German language itself. Where
does he do that, do you have a reference handy? The main criticism by
Peirce of things German-in-those-days that I've noticed is his criticism
of the idea that logic depends on a feeling of logicality. Here's my
footnote, with citations, on Peirce in the Wikipedia "Anti-psychologism"
article.
Peirce attacked the idea, held by some logicians at that time, that
rationality rests on a feeling of logicality, rather than on fact.
See the first of Peirce's 1903 Lowell Institute Lectures
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce_bibliography#Lectures_by_Peirce>
"What Makes a Reasoning Sound?", /Essential Peirce
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce#EP>/ v. 2, pp.
242-257. See also the portion of Peirce's 1902 /Minute Logic/
published in /Collected Papers
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce#CP>/ v. 2
(1931), paragraphs 18–19 and 39–43. Peirce held that mathematical
and philosophical logics precede
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_the_sciences_%28Peirce%29>
psychology as a special science and that they do not depend on it
for principles.
Well, Wikipedia is a handy place to keep some of one's notes. I don't
there mention his ascribing the idea about a basis of logic in
logicality-feeling especially to German logicians, anyway the footnote
includes citations.
Best, Ben
On 4/14/2014 10:29 PM, Jerry LR Chandler wrote:
Ben, List
Thanks for citations. I will study them in some detail and from
several perspectives. Very important to me.
On Apr 14, 2014, at 9:10 PM, Benjamin Udell wrote:
Or did Schleiermacher start out in theology?
Yes, the three theology students studied at Tubingen together in the
early years the 19th Century. My understanding is that they were
strongly influenced by the ideas of Lavoisier, Volta and Dalton.
If you are aware of German intellectual history, all three were Swabens!
I was first introduced to the intertwined lives of these three
students in the book by Roberts on German Idealism.
It is an excellent summary of the currents in german philosophy in the
first half of hte 19th Century, that is, before CSP began his work.
In many places in his writings, CSP is a very harsh critic of German
philosophy, logic and even language. I have never grasp the reasoning
behind CSP's negativism.
Anybody have any clues on why CSP disrespected the Germans?
Was this a consequence of CSP's Unitarianism?
Cheers
Jerry
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