Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture I"

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‘Ethics’ (pub. 18.04.13-14:33). 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-harvard-lectures-pragmatism-lecture-i-4.

Term:

Ethics

Quote:

…it is generally said that the three normative sciences are logic, ethics, and esthetics, being the three doctrines that distinguish good and bad; Logic in regard to representations of truth, Ethics in regard to efforts of will, and Esthetics in objects considered simply in their presentation.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1903). Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture I. MS [R] 301.

References:

CP 5.36

Date of Quote:

1903

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-harvard-lectures-pragmatism-lecture-i-4