Gary, Clark, List, "Stefan thought we might consider looking at Aristotle's views of democracy in approaching Peirce's. I expressed some considerable reservations about that approach."
Hope my intention became clearer by my previous post. "I’d imagine the interesting question regarding democracy is how it relates to societal inquiry." Absolutely. "That is the more interesting question is less the boundaries of democracy as compared to competing institutions than the different types of governments within democracy." Fully agree. "But, first, what are Peirce's views of political economy and democracy." I believe we need more material. That is the reason why i am trying to think loose. Thinking loose to find more material for close reading. Best, Stefan Am 24. November 2016 00:55:52 MEZ, schrieb Gary Richmond <[email protected]>: >Clark, Stefan, Stephen, List, > >Clark quoted me quoting Stefan,a snippet of which I emphasized in my >last >post: "The context for Peirce thinking about democracy and political >economy are obviously his religious ideas. Central concepts in this >context >are love and greed/ altruism and egoism." Stefan thought we might >consider >looking at Aristotle's views of democracy in approaching Peirce's. I >expressed some considerable reservations about that approach. > >Clark wrote: > >I’d imagine the interesting question regarding democracy is how it >relates >to societal inquiry. That is the more interesting question is less the >boundaries of democracy as compared to competing institutions than the >different types of governments within democracy. > > >I think that in a *general sense* that *is* "the more interesting >question," and if it could br addressed in light of Peirce's views, >well >that would be *very* interesting indeed. But principally I'm hoping to >get >at the *specific sense* in which Peirce viewed democracy and related >concepts, then possibly comparing/contrasting his views with Dewey's, >Talisse's, Hook's, etc., and, especially, contemporary views. I think >that >the group of quotations which Stefan offered might be a good place to >look >for at least hints of how Peirce viewed democracy, political economy, >republicanism, etc. It also may prove to be 'slim pickin's'. > >Talisse's work, with which I introduced this topic, might also provide >an >entree to Peirce's view. Stephen offered an excerpt from that book, *A >Pragmatist Philosophy of Democracy,* from which the following snippet >is >excerpted; this too might suggest a driection for our inquiry: > >RT: the Peircean can offer epistemological reasons to support more >aggressive policies of distributive justice, or fundamental reforms of >the >news media which need not appeal to “growth,” but only to the >prerequisites >of proper epistemic activity. For unlike “growth,” the ideal of >promoting >epistemic responsibility amongst a population of democratic citizens is >not reasonably rejectable. > >Yet >the question remains: do Talisse's views as expressed in his book truly >reflect Peirce' > >s > >? > >But, first, what are Peirce's views of political economy and >democracy. > > >Best, > >Gary R > > >[image: Gary Richmond] > >*Gary Richmond* >*Philosophy and Critical Thinking* >*Communication Studies* >*LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* >*C 745* >*718 482-5690* > >On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Clark Goble <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Nov 23, 2016, at 3:29 PM, Gary Richmond <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> The context for Peirce thinking about democracy and political economy >are >> obviously his religious ideas. Central concepts in this context are >love >> and greed/ altruism and egoism. This brings immediatly Aristoteles >> classification of forms of government to my mind (Pol. III, 6 f.). >> >> >> I’d imagine the interesting question regarding democracy is how it >relates >> to societal inquiry. That is the more interesting question is less >the >> boundaries of democracy as compared to competing institutions than >the >> different types of governments within democracy. An obvious example >is top >> down type governance verses bottom up or emergent government. The >former >> tends to be what progressivism embraces (either the early 20th >century >> Bismarkian inspired form or the more contemporary form) whereas in >theory >> conservatism embraces the later. This also gets at the issue of >federalism >> (which given Trump some liberals are starting to embrace). >> >> >> >> >> >> ----------------------------- >> PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY >ON >> PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to >> [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to >PEIRCE-L >> but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in >the >> BODY of the message. More at >http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm >> . >> >> >> >> >> >> -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet.
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