Le forme della primità. Sul rapporto tra teoria, pratica e sentimento in Charles S. Peirce

Abstract

In order to give a sketch of the role of the passions in Ch. S. Peirce’s thought, his life’s experience must be taken into account together with some of the less-known aspects of his philosophy. The category of Firstness holds together all these facets: the place of Esthetics as the first Normative Science (giving rise to Ethics/secondness and Logic/thirdness), the primacy of Sentiment (habit of firstness) in everyday practice (opposed to theory), and the use of Musement as a tool to get an intuition of God. This harmony we see in the theory, however, is achieved through the contrasts experienced by the author throughout his life.

DOI:10.4396/20130304