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1 online resource |
Series |
American philosophy series ; no. 6 |
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American philosophy series ; no. 6.
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Contents |
pt. I. Pragmatism & the Normative Sciences -- pt. II. Synechism & Law -- pt. III. Tychism & Evolusion |
Summary |
In Charles S. Peirce: On Norms and Ideals, Potter argues that Peirce's doctrine of the normative sciences is essential to his pragmatism. No part of Peirce's philosophy is bolder than his attempt to establish esthetics, ethics, and logic as the three normative sciences and to argue for the priority of esthetics among the trio. Logic, Potter cites, is normative because it governs thought and aims at truth; ethics is normative because it analyzes the ends to which thought should be directed; esthetics is normative and fundamental because it considers what it means to be an end or something good in itself. This study shows that Peirce took seriously the trinity of normative sciences and demonstrates that these categories apply both to the conduct of man and to the workings of the cosmos |
Notes |
Originally published: [Amherst] : University of Massachusetts Press, 1967 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-220) and indexes |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 03, 2019) |
Subject |
Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914.
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SUBJECT |
Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914 fast |
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Norm (Philosophy) -- History
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Ideals (Philosophy) -- History
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Pragmatism.
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Ideals (Philosophy)
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Norm (Philosophy)
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780823285235 |
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0823285235 |
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9780823284733 |
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0823284735 |
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