Re: Pragmatic Cosmos

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Sung,

I originally drew that figure as a kind of mandala or mnemonic device to help me sort through some of the more commonly 
observed puzzles about the relationships among the classical normative sciences -- aesthetics, ethics, and logic -- 
whose objects are respectively beauty, goodness (in the sense of duty, justice, morality, propriety, right action, or 
virtue), and truth.

See Figure : http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2003-October/000879.html

I think most people tend to be a bit surprised on first encounter with Peirce's idea that logic waits on ethics and 
ethics waits on aesthetics in some order of precedence that may as yet be hard to pin down.  This is probably due to the 
fact that most of us have been brought up in a tradition that treats logic, whether in the exalted sense of Universal 
Reason or the more narrow sense of deductive reasoning, as the royal road to knowledge.  And yet there is something to 
the idea that logic affords a critical perspective on ethics and aesthetics while an eye to justice can never be far 
removed from a vision of harmony.

So there appears to be a dual ordering, the concentric circles at the base of the structure subsume logic within ethics 
and ethics within aesthetics while the vertical ascent gives logic a perspective over all and ethics its oversight on 
aesthetics.

In the upshot this may just be another one of those realms where the complexity of interrelations and mutual recursions 
among the provinces puts the kibosh on all our notions of simple alliances.

Regards,

Jon

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