Quote from "A Brief Intellectual Autobiography by Charles Sanders Peirce"

Commens

Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Esthetics’ (pub. 15.03.18-09:44). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-brief-intellectual-autobiography-charles-sanders-peirce-11.

Term:

Esthetics

Quote:

…philosophical esthetics (which becomes something very different from the study which the noun usually designates)[,] studies the characters which will belong to the phenomenon so far as it is controllable, that is, the characters of what is aimed at. Thus, the question, What is the summum bonum, is regarded as an esthetical question.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1983). A Brief Intellectual Autobiography by Charles Sanders Peirce. The American Journal of Semiotics, 2(1-2), 61-83.

References:

Peirce, 1983, p. 71; MS [R] L107:19-20

Date of Quote:

1904

Editorial Annotations:

This quote has been taken from Kenneth Laine Ketner's 1983 reconstruction of Peirce's 'Autobiography'

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-brief-intellectual-autobiography-charles-sanders-peirce-11