Abstract

In this paper, I will focus on Peirce’s views on aesthetics and some of its anthropological implications. Though Peirce never developed a systematic account of aesthetics, he was aware of its importance for ethics and logic (C.P. 8.225–8.256). The paper addresses Peirce’s notion in C.P. 5.314–315, that a “man is the thought”, from the view of his aesthetics. My intention is to show that Peirce’s views on the “qualities of feeling” and on aesthetic experience in general may have interesting philosophic-anthropological implications.