Triadic Philosophy - Aesthetics has been badly treated by philosophy.

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I am just starting to read Schiller on Aesthetics. Kindle is wonderful and so are those who create Kindle books for free. Charles Sanders Peirce said he was mightily influenced by Schiller's Letters on Aesthetics and I am anticipating a good read. But let me first say that in the case of Peirce and most other philosophers, aesthetics has received shabby treatment. Aesthetics is not only about fine art.  Aesthetics is the realm  in which we fashion our existence 24/7 whether we know it or not. To relate aesthetics to the world of artists ignores this. Aesthetics is the realm in which each of us  plays out our effort to achieve beauty and truth,  indeed to make beauty and truth one. Aesthetics is the theater of life. It provides the basis for judging the value of all actions by standards that are  clear and experiential, in quality and affect. In the simple hierarchy of conscious thought, Aesthetics is superseded only by Ethics and then by Reality itself. These are the categories of Triadic Philosophy.
In much philosophy, Beauty has been severed from truth and, in place of a philosophy  that is universal, we get an implicit binary divide between "real art" and everything else. Post-modernism was at a viscerel level a reaction to this. Some fine art lost its beauty  in the ugliness of its provenance. You cannot steal what the eye sees at any moment.
I shall read Schiller and at the same time articulate Triadic Philosophy  as a true picture of the world as it now  is, as a true basis for an ethical future. The Aesthetic sphere is the very place where we seek always  to achieve aesthetic results. Truth and beauty. Everyone everywhere.
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