Charles Peirce on Ethics, Esthetics and the Normative Sciences
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-75086-2 (ISBN)
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. Each plays an important role in ethical life. 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. Ethics does the additional duty of ensuring that the means conform to ideals of conduct. In the process, Peirce develops an interesting theory of moral motivation, an account of moral reasoning, moral truth, and a picture of what constitutes a moral community.
Charles Peirce on Ethics, Esthetics and the Normative Sciences will be of interest to scholars and students working on Peirce, American philosophy, and metaethics.
James Jakób Liszka is Senior Scholar at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life and Professor of Philosophy at The State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh. He is also Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary and Area Studies. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and was Visiting Professor at Beijing Language and Culture University and the China Youth University for Political Sciences in Beijing. He was Humanities Fellow at the University of Toronto, Scarborough College. He is the author of Pragmatist Ethics: A Problem-Based Approach to What Matters (2021), Moral Competence (2002), A General Introduction to the Semeiotic of Charles S. Peirce (1996), and The Semiotic of Myth: A Critical Study of the Symbol (1989). He has also published several articles on ethical theory, environmental ethics, pragmatism and narrative theory.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Influences on Peirce’s Ethical Thought
Chapter 2: Morality, Ethics and Peirce’s Conservative Sentimentalism
Chapter 3: The Normative Science of Ethics
Chapter 4: A Grammar of Ethics
Chapter 5: Ethical Reasoning
Chapter 6: Moral Truth and Moral Realism
Chapter 7: Ethical Community
Chapter 8: Esthetics
Chapter 9: Ends
Conclusion: The Lessons of the Normative Sciences
Appendix 1: Peirce’s Classification of Ends
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.12.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in American Philosophy |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 360 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-75086-4 / 0367750864 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-75086-2 / 9780367750862 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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