12/27/11

Charles Sanders Peirce: "Find simple concepts applicable to every subject"

Charles Peirce, "A Guess at the Riddle", at ARISBE: THE PEIRCE GATEWAY:

"l. Long it has been only too manifest that, fondly habituated though we be to it, the old structure will not do for modern needs; and accordingly, under Descartes, Hobbes, Kant, and others, repairs, alterations, and partial demolitions have been carried on for /247/ the last three centuries. One system, also, stands upon its own ground; I mean the new Schelling-Hegel mansion, lately run up in the German taste, but with such oversights in its construction that, although brand new, it is already pronounced uninhabitable. The undertaking which this volume inaugurates is to make a philosophy like that of Aristotle, that is to say, to outline a theory so comprehensive that, for a long time to come, the entire work of human reason, in philosophy of every school and kind, in mathematics, in psychology, in physical science, in history, in sociology, and in whatever other department there may be, shall appear as the filling up of its details. The first step toward this is to find simple concepts applicable to every subject."

'via Blog this'

How about tolerance - in all meanings of the term.
Helpfulness - balancing community with individuality and setting a marker for what actually helps
Democracy - in all meanings of the term
and
Non-isdoltry - fallibilism, humility, continuity, community

AKA Abba's way




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