Open AccessPeirce’s open community in light of sentimentalism and normative sciences
Author(s) -
Jorge Alejandro Flórez Restrepo,
Juliana Acosta López de Mesa
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
estudios de filosofía/estudios de filosofia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2256-358X
pISSN - 0121-3628
DOI - 10.17533/udea.ef.347278
Subject(s) - normative , ideal (ethics) , epistemology , perspective (graphical) , elite , reading (process) , power (physics) , sociology , philosophy , politics , political science , law , computer science , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence
Peirce’s idea of an unlimited community has been usually analyzed from its role in science and the normative ideal of truth. However, it is essential to understand the role of the community of inquiry in light of the other normative sciences, aesthetics and ethics, since according to Peirce, any endeavor to know that is not guided by the esthetical ideal of admirable per se should not be considered as proper science, but as a power tool to benefit some elite. This article aims to analyze Peirce’s idea of community of inquiry in light of sentimentalism and the normative sciences in order to evidence that such community is not elitist, but open, insofar as it is also lured by the summum bonum and the admirable per se. Finally, we provide a more organic reading of Peirce’s work, opening the way to consider possible consequences of this position from an ethical and political perspective.