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Comunicação e Ética: O sistema semiótico de Charles ... - Ubi Thesis

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✐✐✐✐Capítulo 15Notas sobre vitally importanttopics. O sentimentalismopeirceanoAética no âmbito das ciências normativas é uma ciência puramente teoréticae totalmente <strong>de</strong>sligada dos acontecimentos e atritos concretos quepreenchem a vida do mundo. O lugar <strong>de</strong> uma ética <strong>de</strong>ôntica, para Peirce, seriaindubitavelmente do domínio daquilo a que chama <strong>de</strong> “artes” ou “ciênciaspráticas”.Peirce oscila entre dizer que o estudo <strong>de</strong> tal ciência, a ética <strong>de</strong>ôntica, éum affair “mesquinho e sórdido”, 1 ou “valioso” e com potencial civilizador. 2O que nunca diz é que tal arte não é possível, embora não se tenha <strong>de</strong>dicadoa tentar constituí-la, e esteja, na primeira das suas Cambridge Lectures, na1 . “That is about what I had to say to you about topics of vital importance. To sum it up,all sensible talk about vitally important topics must be commonplace, all reasoning about themunsound, and all study of them narrow and sordid”, Collected Papers, 1.677.2 . “As long as ethics is recognized as not being a matter of vital importance or in any waytouching the stu<strong>de</strong>nt’s conscience, it is, to a normal and healthy mind, a civilizing and valuablestudy – somewhat more so than the theory of whist, much more so than the question of thelanding of Columbus, which things are insignificant not at all because they are useless, noreven because they are little in themselves, but simply and solely because they are <strong>de</strong>tachedfrom the great continuum of i<strong>de</strong>as”, Collected Papers, 1.669.405✐✐✐✐

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