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Hopefully some applications to evolutionary love 💕🌌

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We can definitely discuss agapism! This essay we're focussing on is from before the famous series of articles in the Monist which include the essay "Evolutionary Love" itself, however. But I do suspect we'll once again get into the triad of evolutionary "modes" - tychasm, anancasm, agapasm - that Peirce defines in that later essay.

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love is the law, after all is said and done.

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Cool! Enjoyed your conversation on Answer to Job. Fun fact Jung seems to have been reading William James’ “Pragmatism” immediately prior to writing Black Books -- wonder how much Peirce flowed in ;)

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Jung mentions his debt to James many times, and certainly James was deeply in debt to Peirce (there was reciprocal influence, ofc, and James also sound he found the technical details of Peirce incomprehensible). Another fun fact - Peirce read Eduard von Hartmann and was quite convinced of the proto-psychoanalytic view of the unconscious he articulated. Important to note when we discuss Peirce's notion of "Mind" as primary.

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Very good Matt, I'm really trying to deepen my understanding of Pierce and Whitehead. In many ways it's clear to me that much of our modern work hasn't quite caught up yet

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Love the art, Matt? Is it AI?

It’s like a humanoid trefoil knot of metaphysical energy.

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I am finding my own deep intuitions being articulated in the thought of Peirce. Thank you for sharing this guide! Without such a condensation, I may never have known. 🙏

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I found this quote from the essay by Peirce to be very aligned with what I think of as the «right» metaphysics:

«We have seen that it is the immediate consciousness that is preeminently first, the external dead thing that is preeminently second. In like manner, it is evidently the representation mediating between these two that is preeminently third.»

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Enthusiastically looking forward to the upcoming conversation, and this more in-depth knowledge of his point of view is most helpful. Once again, a most masterful interpenetration of clearly truthful points of view. Muchly appreciated.

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Yeah, Whitehead says the same thing as Peirce about Hegel. Not sure what to make of it.

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