Sung, As fond as I may be of the idea that “God Ever Geometrizes” I'm afraid I will have to leave that conical question open in all three directions.
Regards, Jon http://inquiryintoinquiry.com > On Dec 29, 2014, at 1:35 PM, Sungchul Ji <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jon wrote: > > "So there appears to be a dual ordering, the concentric circles at the base > of the structure (122914-1) > subsume logic within ethics and ethics within aesthetics while the vertical > ascent gives logic > a perspective over all and ethics its oversight on aesthetics." > > An interesting insight. > > Can it be that (122914-1) is true because of the GEOMETRY of the circular > cone covering three concentric circular cylinders ? > > With all the best. > > Sung > > > > > >> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Jon Awbrey <[email protected]> wrote: >> JBD:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15230 >> JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15235 >> SJ:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15236 >> JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15237 >> JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15238 >> JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15239 >> HR:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15240 >> JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15241 >> HR:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15243 >> JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15244 >> HR:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15246 >> JA:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15252 >> SJ:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/15268 >> >> Sung, >> >> I originally drew that figure as a kind of mandala or mnemonic device to >> help me sort through some of the more commonly observed puzzles about the >> relationships among the classical normative sciences -- aesthetics, ethics, >> and logic -- whose objects are respectively beauty, goodness (in the sense >> of duty, justice, morality, propriety, right action, or virtue), and truth. >> >> See Figure : http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2003-October/000879.html >> >> I think most people tend to be a bit surprised on first encounter with >> Peirce's idea that logic waits on ethics and ethics waits on aesthetics in >> some order of precedence that may as yet be hard to pin down. This is >> probably due to the fact that most of us have been brought up in a tradition >> that treats logic, whether in the exalted sense of Universal Reason or the >> more narrow sense of deductive reasoning, as the royal road to knowledge. >> And yet there is something to the idea that logic affords a critical >> perspective on ethics and aesthetics while an eye to justice can never be >> far removed from a vision of harmony. >> >> So there appears to be a dual ordering, the concentric circles at the base >> of the structure subsume logic within ethics and ethics within aesthetics >> while the vertical ascent gives logic a perspective over all and ethics its >> oversight on aesthetics. >> >> In the upshot this may just be another one of those realms where the >> complexity of interrelations and mutual recursions among the provinces puts >> the kibosh on all our notions of simple alliances. >> >> Regards, >> >> Jon >> >> Sungchul Ji wrote: >>> Dear Jon, >>> >>> The circular cone you used to represent the relationship among logic, >>> ethics and aesthetics (called the pragmatic cosmos) (reproduced below) >>> reminded me of my own "conic theory of everything (CTE)" that I >>> proposed in 2012 (see the figure attached). >>> >>> You capitalized the surface of the circular cone as the boundary of >>> the three circular cylinders, each representing aesthetics, ethics, or >>> logic, In contrast, I viewed the circular cone as the combination two >>> types of triangles -- (i) triangles lying on the base of the circular >>> cone (called the 'epistemological triads') and (ii) the triangles >>> standing perpendicularly on the base of the cone (called 'ontological >>> triads') with their apexes converging at one point, i.e., the apex of >>> the circular cone. >>> >>> Besides the features of the circular cone that are utilized in the >>> pragmatic cosmos and the "conic theory of everything," I am sure there >>> are other geometric features of this object that may be useful in >>> representing some other fundamental ideas in sciences and philosophy. >>> >>> >>> With all the best. >>> >>> >>> Sung >> >> -- >> >> academia: http://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey >> my word press blog: http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/ >> inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ >> isw: http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/JLA >> oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey >> facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache > > > > -- > Sungchul Ji, Ph.D. > > Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology > Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology > Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy > Rutgers University > Piscataway, N.J. 08855 > 732-445-4701 > > www.conformon.net
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