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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / b. Defining ethics

14784	Ethics is the science of aims [Peirce]
	Full Idea: Ethics is the science of aims.
	From: Charles Sanders Peirce (The Nature of Mathematics [1898], II)
	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.