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 In the simple hierarchy of conscious thought, Aesthetics is superseded only by Ethics and then by Reality itself.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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Triadic Commentary - Aesthetics is vastly more than an artistic quality

Among the revolutionary aspects of Triadic Philosophy the most important may be the elevation of aesthetics  to its rightful place in the triad  which is the root of how we think and therefore  of how we live and move and have our being. 
In Triadic Philosophy the root triad is Reality Ethics Aesthetics Aesthetics is the plane of activation Of iteration Of emergence from the struggle betwen  Etthics and Reality In Triadic Philosophy  anything can be any one of the three in a triad Triadic Philosophy always sees whatever is first as reality It always sees the Second as the challenge to this first Aesthetics the Third takes the result of this linkage and translates it into a hypothetical action a stab at doing something an experiment Its criteria are that truth and beauty be found in the action When these are lacking life is diminished The cosmos is set back We lose some of what we have gained
If this seems fanciful bear with me Every word of Triadic Philosophy has a place and a justification which  validates it as an aspect of being as ontological   as Reality   If today aesthetics is seen merely as artistic quality that is a reduction that will not stand. Philosophy has not done much better relegating aesthetics to vastly less than  Keats' equation of beauty and truth.

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Triadic Philosophy Why are ethics and aesthetics fundamental to the thought process?

Why are ethics and aesthetics fundamental to the thought process these are premises but do they reflect truth  why is this premise revolutionary why is pragmaticism revolutionary why is this right for now
Because signs are whatever they are and rise up in Reality Because activation rises from resistance and  resistance to Reality can be called Ethics in the sense of always questioning even opposing And because Aesthetics is the objective of our living and breathing response to the coalescence between Reality and Ethics This is pragmaticism This is Triadic Philosophy Stephen's Remarkable Kindle Store



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The primacy and Unity of Aesthetics and Ethics - moving past a conundrum

No philosopher am I but lives compose philosophies whether one knows it or not so yes I share my life Where I part company from Kierkegaard Where I part company from Nietzsche Where I part company from Peirce and most likely Aristotle too is in insisting that value and will precede everything and that ethics and aesthetics are  prior to and not subordinate to any other categories including logic and science  What this means is that I am forced by the logic of my own premises to begin applying what this all means in ways that will  eventually make some sense to both me and the reader from now on if not philosophy  contention toward truth
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Charles Sanders Peirce on The Ethical Imperative

"If I had a son, I should instill into him this view of morality (that is, that Ethics is the science of the method of bringing Self-Control to bear to gain satisfaction) and force him to see that there is but one thing that raises one individual animal above another,--Self-Mastery; and should teach him that the Will is free only in the sense that, by employing the proper appliances, he can make himself behave in the way he really desires to behave. As to what one ought to desire, it is, I should teach him, what he will desire if he sufficiently considers it, and that will be to make his life beautiful, admirable. Now the science of the Admirable is true Esthetics." (As quoted in Brent, Peirce: A Life, p49).

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