Essay 5: The Normative Sciences
From Chapel Hill History of Philosophy
Headings from Volume 5 of the collected works dealing with the Normative Sciences:
1. Pragmatism: The Normative Sciences
§4. The Relations of the Normative Sciences
5. Three Kinds of Goodness
§1. The Divisions of Philosophy
§2. Ethical and Esthetical Goodness
To join the discussion of Sam's initial question about Peirce's conception on the highest end for ethics, and his claim that aesthetics has priority over ethics in setting this end, click on the button for §2. Ethical and Esthetical Goodness. Some of this discussion is replicated under the discussion button at the top of this page. We can reorganize matters later if that is needed.
6. Three Types of Reasoning
§1. Perceptual Judgments and Generality
§2. The Plan and Steps of Reasoning
§5. The Meaning of an Argument
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