ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at semiotics more synchronically than diachronically. The general architecture of the project for "Global Semiotics", or "Semiotics of life", which finds a recent and mature expression in the work of Thomas A. Sebeok, but which goes back at least to the semiotics of Charles S. Peirce and Charles W. Morris. And, Sebeoks global semiotics is closely related to pragmatism as developed by the latter two, though especially to the pragmaticism of Peirce. Semioethics is a crucial part of the answer to the question regarding the future of semiosis, the destiny of semiosis, proposed by Sebeok in "Semiosis and Semiotics: What Lies in Their Future?". Semioethics intends to evidence the responsibility of semiotics towards semiosis, consequently proposing that "global semiotics", which is founded in the general science of signs as conceived by Peirce, now be further developed precisely in terms of "semioethics".
