[Inquiry] Re: Prospects for Inquiry Driven Systems

[Jon Awbrey]

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PRO.  Note 42

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1.3.1.  Logic, Ethics, Aesthetics

The philosophy I find myself converging to most often lately is
the pragmatic thinking of Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey.
According to this account, logic, ethics, and aesthetics form a
concentric series of normative sciences, each the subdiscipline
of the next.

Logic tells how one ought to conduct one's reasoning
in order to achieve the goals of reasoning in general.
In this perspective, logic is a special case of ethics.

Ethics tells how one ought to conduct one's activities in general
in order to achieve the good that is appropriate to each enterprise.
What makes the difference, the critical reflective difference, between
a normative science and a prescriptive dogma is whether this telling is
based on actual inquiry into the relationship of conduct to result, or not.