Charles S. Peirce : On Norms and Ideals / Vincent G. Potter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Potter, Vincent G., Author.

drew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Ope, National Endowment for the Humanities/An, Author.

Series:

American philosophy series ; Number 6.

American Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914.

Peirce, Charles S.

Norm (Philosophy)--History.

Norm (Philosophy).

Ideals (Philosophy)--History.

Ideals (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiv, 229 pages).

Place of Publication:

LaVergne : Fordham University Press, 2018.

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Potter Vincent G. : Vincent G. Potter was Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University; and editor of International Philosophical Quarterly.Vincent G. Potter was Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University; and editor of International Philosophical Quarterly.

Summary:

In recent years, Charles Sanders Peirce has emerged, in the eyes of philosophers both in America and abroad, as one of America’s major philosophical thinkers. His work has forced us back to philosophical reflection about those basic issues that inevitably confront us as human beings, especially in an age of science. Peirce’s concern for experience, for what is actually encountered, means that his philosophy, even in its most technical aspects, forms a reflective commentary on actual life and on the world in which it is lived. 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 of something good in itself. This study shows that pierce 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. Professor Potter combines sympathetic and informed exposition with straightforward criticism and he deals in a sensible manner with the gaps and inconsistencies in Peirce’s thought. His study shows that Peirce was above all a cosmological and ontological thinker, one who combined science both as a method and as result with a conception of reasonable actions to form a comprehensive theory of reality. Peirce’s pragmatism, although it has to do with "action and the achievement of results, is not a glorification of action but rather a theory of the dynamic nature of things in which the "ideal" dimension of reality – laws, nature of things, tendencies, and ends – has genuine power for directing the cosmic order, including man, toward reasonable goals.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction to the 1997 Edition

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Categories & Normative Science

2. Analysis of Normative Science

3. Pragmatism & the Normative Sciences

1. Synechism & Metaphysical Realism

2. Law as Thirdness

3. Law as Living Power

1. Tychism versus Determinism

2. Evolutionary Love

3. The Beginning & the End

Appendices

Bibliography

Indices

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8232-8523-5

OCLC:

1101901816

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access