A semiotic theory of self-control

Abstract

The main aim of the following proposal is to show how the emergence of self-controlled habits from emotions can be explained according to Peirce’s speculative grammar. As a result, I hope to show, first, a possible application of speculative grammar, about which much is speculated but little is applied; second, to suggest a possible theory of language understood as a controlled form of our feelings in such a way that this allows them to be shared and communicated. In addition, and even more importantly, this would show that the traditional division between the faculty of reason and the emotional faculty is not such, rather it should be said that reason, or better, reasonability arises from and sinks its roots in this faculty and grows from it in a continuum. Accordingly, any education that aims towards self-control should start in an aesthetic education or, if you prefer, in a sentimental one.