Charles Peirce's understanding of the four ages and of his own place in the history of human thought
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William Pencak
Abstract
John Deely's Four ages of understanding rightly views Charles Sanders Peirce as one of the key figures in human thought, along with Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, and Locke (not to mention Kant and Hegel). Studying Peirce's own extensive writings on the history of philosophy, in which all of those men figured prominently, reveals that Peirce himself developed roughly the same periodization as Deely, without working it out in such detail. Peirce recognized the distinctiveness of what Deely terms the ancient age (Aristotle), the Latin (Aquinas), and modern (Descartes and Locke), while at the same time recognizing that he himself was a pioneer on an unknown frontier of human thought. This article summarizes Peirce's understanding of philosophical history, his own place in it, and compares Peirce's schema with Deely's.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- The concept as a formal sign
- Charles Peirce's understanding of the four ages and of his own place in the history of human thought
- Semiotics and philosophy: Working for a historical reconstruction of human understanding
- Is there purely objective reality?
- Platonic reflections upon Four ages of understanding
- Christian philosophy in John Deely's Four ages of understanding
- Semiotics or metaphysics as first philosophy? Triadic or dyadic relations in regard to Four ages of understanding
- After Deely: If I walk the “way of signs,” where am I going?
- Semiosis and the elusive final interpretant of understanding
- Semiotics and human nature in postmodernity: A consideration of animal semioticum as the postmodern definition of human being
- The history of philosophy conceived as a struggle between nominalism and realism
- From here to the Latin Age and back again: A four-cause category-based exploration of Adrian J. Walker's article on von Balthasar's concept of “love alone”
- The review essays in paraleipsis: Looking forward while looking back
