Semiotics is concerned with the good life because Triadic Philosophy aims at the good life.

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Semiotics is concerned with the good life because  Triadic Philosophy aims at the good life. This is because goodness is clearly understood  in Triadic Philosophy as the conscious avoidance of  what is demonstrably harmful. Conscious killing is the greatest evil. The greatest good is the achievement of  truth and beauty via the aesthetic grasp of,  and human creation of, a world in which  the possibilities of harm are minimized. Triadic Philosophy  understands Ethics as the object to which Reality (the referent) refers en route to the interpretants  which are our more or less aesthetic  attempts to form our reality. The ontological values of the Ethical are tolerance, helpfulness, democracy and non-idolatry.
Semiotics is among the tools  we have for articulating  the process by which signs  rising in Reality encounter the blunt truths  of the Ethical. This encounter influences our actions in the performative realm  of life as it is actually lived.
Signs can be anything at all. The dominant feature  of Triadic Philosophy  is that Ethics is understood as the realm  of secondness, to borrow a term from Peirce.   Understanding Aesthetics as the realm of thirdness marks Triadic Philosophy as an advance, called for by the arduous progress of the world  toward self-realization.
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Triadic Philosophy - Integrating My Categories with Pierce's Icons, Indices, Symbols

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Introductory Note The best introduction far and away to Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotics (theory of signs) is my Kindle book The Essential Peirce Selected Philosophical Writings Volume Two beginning at Chapter Three and continuing. The short text below derives from reading this and catching my first true glimmer of  the utility of Peirce's division of signs into Icon, Index and Symbol. As he writes, Peirce indicates how fluid logic is and, implicitly, the infantile state of our intellectual efforts. It is enough to induce humility among academics if not among those of us who natter at them.  
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The root triad Reality, Ethics, Aesthetic seems  naturally to segue with Charles Sanders Pierce's terms for the division of signs. The Peirce triad for signs is icons, indices and symbols. The images, thoughts and ideas which arise in Reality are icons. We create and name them. They point to something. In the realm of Ethics we find indices.  They are the elements needed for understanding the sign. This may constitute a blunt truth, even a barrier,  to the sign we are considering. The fruit of the triadic process is in Aesthetics our symbolic realm of activation. The symbol so derived becomes our reality.
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I do not seek to represent  Peirce but to observe points where his thinking may - I stress may - amplify what is essentially  an original philosophy that integrates inspirations traceable to Peirce, Assagioli, Nietzsche and the Gospel of Mark. Applying the sign divisions icon, index and symbol to my root triad adds depth and functionality. To understand this existentially seems to me a serious advance.
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Mentalese has been there all along

Mentalese a tongue behind all tongues A common language that makes sense to all Just as the same air seems to fill our lungs A common lingo hastens Babel's fall   On Mentalese http://buff.ly/RxhaDU
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Organized religion will morph into universal spirituality

Santorum Upsets G.O.P. Race With Three Victories - NYTimes.com:

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Sign - Religious hypocrisy accelerates the death of organized religion

Proposition - Faced with extinction organized religion gathers at the barricades whipped on by politicians

Representation - We shall overcome the hypocrisy by understanding it and move beyond conflict by affirming the capacity of individuals to act upon values that no institution of any sort can direct or mandate - tolerance, democracy, helpfulness, non-idolatry

Charles Sanders Peirce - Thinking in Threes

Semeiotic theory is necessarily first among sciences

"For "semiotics" to be an effective unifying discipline it must not isolate itself. Unfortunately, it's too late. By a series of missteps, related cross-discipline confusions, and plain term usage, "semiotics" *is* isolated.

"The irony is that semeiotic theory is necessarily first among sciences. Yet its current position is worse than last. If you surveyed most scientists today that understand the discipline I suspect they would consider it irrelevant, many more have never heard of it.

"And I do not think the situation can be rescued. Any serious analysis of the situation must, I think, draw this conclusion.

"The right approach I have concluded is to drive a resurgence with renewed interest in logic and its foundations, expanding the scope of the discipline to encompass the concerns that rest within what we call "semeiotic theory." Logic has a role that is better appreciated and can be driven toward a useful expansion and a clarification by semeiotic theory." - Steven Ericsson-Zenith

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A salient squib from C. S. Peirce

You hear a new slang word: you never ask for a definition of it; 

and you never get one. 

 You do not get even any simple example of its use; 

you only hear it in ironical, twisted, humorous, sentences whose meaning is turned

inside out and tied in a hard knot; 

yet you know what that word means much

better than any abstract definition could have informed you. 

 In riding a horse; rider and ridden understand one another [in] a way of which the

former can no more give an account than the latter. 

(Collected Papers, 7.447)

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