Peircers, Yet another attack of synchronicity -- I just now happened to be working on the markup of some old work and I ran across this bit where I was trying to puzzle out a sensible picture of how the normative science fit together within a pragmatic perspective on their objects.
| Questions about the good of something, and what must be done to get it, | and what shows the way to do it, belong to the normative sciences of | aesthetics, ethics, and logic, respectively. | } Aesthetic knowledge is a creature's most basic sense | of what is good or bad for it, as signaled by the | experiential features of pleasure or pain, | respectively. | | Ethical knowledge deals with the courses of action | and patterns of conduct that lead to these ends. | | Logical knowledge begins from the remoter signs | of what actions are true and false to their ends, | and derives the necessary consequences indicated by | combinations of signs. | | In pragmatic thought, the normative disciplines can be imagined as three | concentric cylinders resting on their bases, increasing in height as they | narrow, from aesthetics to ethics to logic, in that order. Considered with | regard to the plane of their experiential bases, logic is subsumed by ethics, | which is subsumed by aesthetics. And yet, in another sense, logic affords | a perspective on ethics, while ethics affords a perspective on aesthetics. | | http://mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey/Papers/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_:_Part_6#6.2._A_Candid_Point_of_View Regards, Jon -- academia: http://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ mwb: http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey word press blog 1: http://jonawbrey.wordpress.com/ word press blog 2: http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to lists...@listserv.iupui.edu with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
