L The aesthetic, the moral, the logical, the metaphysical Peirce: CP Philosophy is divided into a. Phenomenology; b. Normative Science; c. Metaphysics. Phenomenology ascertains and studies the kinds of elements universally present in the phenomenon; meaning by the phenomenon, whatever is present at any time to the mind in any way. Normative science distinguishes what ought to be from what ought not to be, and makes many other divisions and arrangements subservient to its primary dualistic distinction. Metaphysics seeks to give an account of the universe of mind and matter. Normative science rests largely on phenomenology and on mathematics; metaphysics on phenomenology and on normative science. SCHEMA: Aesthetics (phenomenology in P’s sense) Ethics Logic (the critique of reasoning, all forms) Metaphysics

If, however, logic, ethics, and esthetics, which are the families of normative science, are simply the arts of reasoning, of the conduct of life, and of fine art, they do not belong in the branch of theoretic science which we are alone considering, at all. There is no doubt that they are closely related to three corresponding arts, or practical sciences. But that which renders the word normative needful (and not purely ornamental) is precisely the rather singular fact that, though these sciences do study what ought to be, i.e., ideals, they are the very most purely theoretical of purely theoretical sciences. What was it that Pascal said? "La vraie morale se moque de la morale." [True morality makes fun of morality”]

2.197 In the derivation of this word, "phenomenon" is to be understood in the broadest sense conceivable; so that phenomenology might rather be defined as the study of what seems than as the statement of what appears. It describes the essentially different elements which seem to present themselves in what seems. Its task requires and exercises a singular sort of thought, a sort of thought that will be found to be of the utmost service throughout the study of logic. It can hardly be said to involve reasoning; for reasoning reaches a conclusion, and asserts it to be true however matters may seem; while in Phenomenology there is no assertion except that there are certain seemings; and even these are not, and cannot be asserted, because they cannot be described. Phenomenology can only tell the reader which way to look and to see what he shall see. The question of how far Phenomenology does reason will receive special attention. We shall next take up the logic of the normative sciences, of which logic itself is only the third, being preceded by Esthetics and Ethics. See 5.37; 5.108

A work of are does not tell you what to do. It presents examples of sufficient complexity to allow you the freedom to think reflectively about the complexity of its content. Since it hinges on freedom, it does entail choice, reflective choice. That is the link to ethics. Can I assent to this? The choices affect how you reason: can you reason for yourself, from the perpective of the other, and consistently? That is the link to Logic If you reverse this, and reason down from Metaphysics, the result is dogma, fundamentalism, the undermining of choice, the reliance on ideology

Two example How can we put U. L. of B together? Williams p 61: the transposition of faculties & followiing poem: The pure products of America go crazy