Charles Peirce on Ethics, Esthetics and the Normative Sciences

This book presents a comprehensive and systematic picture of Charles Peirce's ethics and aesthetics, arguing that Peirce established a normative framework for the study of right conduct and good ends. It also connects Peirce's normative thought to contemporary debates in ethical theory.

Autorentext

James Jakób Liszka is Senior Scholar at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life and Professor of Philosophy at The State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh. He is also Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary and Area Studies. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and was Visiting Professor at Beijing Language and Culture University and the China Youth University for Political Sciences in Beijing. He was Humanities Fellow at the University of Toronto, Scarborough College. He is the author of Pragmatist Ethics: A Problem-Based Approach to What Matters (2021), Moral Competence (2002), A General Introduction to the Semeiotic of Charles S. Peirce (1996), and The Semiotic of Myth: A Critical Study of the Symbol (1989). He has also published several articles on ethical theory, environmental ethics, pragmatism and narrative theory.

Klappentext

This book presents a comprehensive and systematic picture of Charles Peirce's ethics and aesthetics, arguing that Peirce established a normative framework for the study of right conduct and good ends. It also connects Peirce's normative thought to contemporary debates in ethical theory.

Inhalt

Introduction

Chapter 1: Influences on Peirce's Ethical Thought

Chapter 2: Morality, Ethics and Peirce's Conservative Sentimentalism

Chapter 3: The Normative Science of Ethics

Chapter 4: A Grammar of Ethics

Chapter 5: Ethical Reasoning

Chapter 6: Moral Truth and Moral Realism

Chapter 7: Ethical Community

Chapter 8: Esthetics

Chapter 9: Ends

Conclusion: The Lessons of the Normative Sciences

Appendix 1: Peirce's Classification of Ends