Joe, Jim
What Joe has said in his response to Jim of Sept 12, seems to reflect something that may have arisen from Peirce's early exposure to philosophy: his reading of Schiller's _Aesthetic Letters_. In writing up a report on cultural impacts in occupational health and safety, I found myself reading Schiller in order to get a grasp on the origins of the modern concept of culture, and recalled that Peirce had written something on Schiller during his early Harvard days (or before: I don't have acces to the _Writings_ right now, but I recall seeing something in one of the early volumes, and at Arisbe). In any case: perhaps what Joe has said here has to do with the relationship between learning, play, and (maybe?) what Peirce called Musement?
Schiller, J.C.F. Von (1794/1910). Letters Upon The Aesthetic Education of Man. In Literary and philosophical essays: French, German and Italian. With introductions and notes . New York , Collier [c1910] Series: The Harvard classics, 32.
It's also available on the Web, with a few minor typos.
Just flying a kite, folks ...Cheers
Arnold Shepperson
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