Agapasm

Keyword: Agapasm


Article in Journal | Posted 16/09/2017
Pape, Helmut (1997). Love's Power and the Causality of Mind: C. S. Peirce on the Place of Mind and Culture in Evolution
Discusses a positive thesis about human culture. Information on mental causality in Charles Peirce's evolutionary cosmology; Distinction between the law of love and the law of mind; Types of...
Encyclopedia Article | Posted 10/05/2013
Esposito, Joseph: "Synechism: the Keystone of Peirce’s Metaphysics"

Synechism, as a metaphysical theory, is the view that the universe exists as a continuous whole of all of its parts, with no part being fully separate, determined or determinate, and continues to...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/01/2013
Quote from "Evolutionary Love"

Three modes of evolution have thus been brought before us: evolution by fortuitous variation, evolution by mechanical necessity, and evolution by creative love. We may term...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/01/2013
Quote from "Evolutionary Love"

I first formulate for the reader’s convenience the briefest possible definitions of the three conceivable modes of development of thought, distinguishing also two varieties of anancasm and three...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/01/2013
Quote from "Evolutionary Love"

The agapastic development of thought should, if it exists, be distinguished by its purposive character, this purpose being the development of an idea. We should have...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/01/2013
Quote from "Reply to the Necessitarians: Rejoinder to Dr. Carus"

So that the social theory of reality, far from being incompatible with tychism, inevitably leads up to that form of philosophy. Socialistic, or as I prefer to term it, agapastic ontology seems to...