Re: [PEIRCE-L] Summum Bonum and Determination (was A question for pragmatists)

2023-04-25 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Gary F., List: Put another way, "the pragmaticist does not make the *summum bonum* to consist in action, but makes it to consist in that process of evolution whereby the existent comes more and more to embody those generals which were just now said to be *destined*, which is what we strive to

[PEIRCE-L] Summum Bonum and Determination (was A question for pragmatists)

2023-04-25 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Gary F., List: I did not claim "that absolute determinacy is the ideal *summum bonum*," I said that according to Peirce, concrete reasonableness is the *summum bonum* and utter determinacy is the state that the universe *would *reach as an ideal limit in the infinite future, but never actually