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Full Idea
Ethics is the science of aims.
Gist of Idea
Ethics is the science of aims
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (The Nature of Mathematics [1898], II)
Book Ref
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Philosophical Writings of Peirce', ed/tr. Buchler,Justus [Dover 1940], p.144
A Reaction
Intriguing slogan. He is discussing the aims of logic. I think what he means is that ethics is the science of value. 'Science' may be optimistic, but I would sort of agree with his basic idea.
14789 | Experience is indeed our only source of knowledge, provided we include inner experience [Peirce] |
14782 | Philosophy is an experimental science, resting on common experience [Peirce] |
14783 | Logic, unlike mathematics, is not hypothetical; it asserts categorical ends from hypothetical means [Peirce] |
14784 | Ethics is the science of aims [Peirce] |
14786 | Some logical possibility concerns single propositions, but there is also compatibility between propositions [Peirce] |
14785 | The world is one of experience, but experiences are always located among our ideas [Peirce] |
14787 | Self-contradiction doesn't reveal impossibility; it is inductive impossibility which reveals self-contradiction [Peirce] |
14788 | Mathematics is close to logic, but is even more abstract [Peirce] |