Charles Sanders Peirce and Evolutionary Love

We go through life bypassing minds that have unlocked 

Things that we come to by some other way 

So late in my life I was moved to find 

Exactly my take on the way of agape

Notes:

Charles Sanders Peirce (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy): "An especially intriguing and curious twist in Peirce's evolutionism is that in Peirce's view evolution involves what he calls its "agapeism." Peirce speaks of evolutionary love. According to Peirce, the most fundamental engine of the evolutionary process is not struggle, strife, greed, or competition. Rather it is nurturing love, in which an entity is prepared to sacrifice its own perfection for the sake of the wellbeing of its neighbor."

Charles Sanders Peirce (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy): "This doctrine had a social significance for Peirce, who apparently had the intention of arguing against the morally repugnant but extremely popular socio-economic Darwinism of the late nineteenth century. The doctrine also had for Peirce a cosmic significance, which Peirce associated with the doctrine of the Gospel of John and with the mystical ideas of Swedenborg and Henry James."

Charles Sanders Peirce - Thinking in Threes