Quote from "Evolutionary Love"

Commens

Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Agapasm’ (pub. 03.01.13-19:17). 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-evolutionary-love.

Term:

Agapasm

Quote:

The agapastic development of thought should, if it exists, be distinguished by its purposive character, this purpose being the development of an idea. We should have a direct agapic or sympathetic comprehension and recognition of it by virtue of the continuity of thought.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1893). Evolutionary Love. The Monist, 3, 176-200.

References:

CP 6.315

Date of Quote:

1893

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-evolutionary-love