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Term: 
Ethics
Quote: 

Normative science has three widely separated divisions: i. Esthetics; ii. Ethics; iii. Logic.

… Ethics, or the science of right and wrong, must appeal to Esthetics for aid in determining the summum bonum. It is the theory of self-controlled, or deliberate, conduct.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1903). A Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son.
References: 
CP 1.191
Date of Quote: 
1903
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