Peirce’s Imaginative Community: On the Esthetic Grounds of Inquiry
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 58, no. 1 (2022); 1-21. [doi] [Read full article] *Winner of the Peirce Essay Prize
Abstract
Departing from Anderson’s (2016) suggestion that there are three communities in Peirce’s thought corresponding to his three normative sciences of logic, ethics, and esthetics, I argue that these communities partake in a relationship of dependence similar to that found among the normative sciences. In this way, just as logic relies on ethics which relies on esthetics, so too would a logical community of inquirers rely on an ethical community of love, which would rely on an esthetic community of artists. A community could only conduct inquiry together if it pursued the same goal; and it could only pursue the same goal if it first imaginatively construed it. Any logical or ethical community requires a shared imaginative repertoire of ideal ends.
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