Charles Peirce on Ethics, Esthetics and the Normative Sciences Liszka James Jakb
Charles Peirce on Ethics, Esthetics and the Normative Sciences Liszka James Jakb This book presents a comprehensive and systematic picture of Charles Peirce's ethics and aesthetics, arguing that…
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Charles Peirce on Ethics, Esthetics and the Normative Sciences Liszka James Jakb
This book presents a comprehensive and systematic picture of Charles Peirce's ethics and aesthetics, arguing that Peirce established a normative framework for the study of right conduct and good ends. Each plays an important role in ethical life. It also connects Peirce's normative thought to contemporary debates in ethical theory.Peirce sought to articulate the relation among logic as right thinking, ethics as good conduct and, in an unorthodox sense of aesthetics, the pursuit of ends that are fine and worthy.
Ethics does the additional duty of ensuring that the means conform to ideals of conduct. Once aesthetics has determined what makes an end worthy and admirable, and ethics determines which are good and right to pursue, logical and scientific reasoning is employed to figure the most likely means to attain those ends. In the process, Peirce develops an interesting theory