Josiah Royce in Focus

Josiah Royce in Focus PDF Author: Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253219590
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 472

Book Description
This new approach to Josiah Royce shows one of American philosophy's brightest minds in action for today's readers. Although Royce was one of the towering figures of American pragmatism, his thought is often considered in the wake of his more famous peers. Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley brings fresh perspective to Royce's ideas and clarifies his individual philosophical vision. Kegley foregrounds Royce's concern with contemporary public issues and ethics, focusing in particular on how he addresses long-standing problems such as race, religion, community, the dangers of mass media, mass culture, and blatant individualistic capitalism. She offers a deep and fruitful philosophical exploration of Royce's ideas on conflict resolution, memory, self-identity, and self-development. Kegley's keen understanding and appreciation of Royce reintroduces him to a new generation of scholars and students.

Time, Will, and Purpose

Time, Will, and Purpose PDF Author: Randall E. Auxier
Publisher: Open Court
ISBN: 0812698533
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 440

Book Description
Josiah Royce (1855–1916) has had a major influence on American intellectual life — both popular movements and cutting-edge thought — but his name often went unmentioned while his ideas marched forward. The leading American proponent of absolute idealism, Royce has come back into fashion in recent years. With several important new books appearing, the formation of a Josiah Royce Society, and the re-organization of the Royce papers at Harvard, the time is ripe for Time, Will, and Purpose. Randall Auxier delves into the primary texts written by Royce to retrieve the most poignant ideas, the ideas we need most in the present day, while he also offers a new framework for understanding the development of Royce’s philosophy. Auxier responds to everything that has been written about Royce, both early and recent.

Josiah Royce for the Twenty-first Century

Josiah Royce for the Twenty-first Century PDF Author: Kelly Parker
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739173375
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 307

Book Description
The sixteen chapters of Josiah Royce for the Twenty-first Century are papers from the Fourth Annual Conference on American and European Values / International Conference on Josiah Royce, held at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Opole, Poland in June 2008. The presentation of diverse perspectives, and the development of many distinctive, promising strands of inquiry from the spring of Royce’s work, establish that Royce offers significant resources for a number of areas of contemporary philosophy. The book is organized into four parts: (I) Historical Reinterpretations, (II) Ethics: Interpretations of Loyalty, (III) Religious Philosophy, and (IV) Contemporary Implications. Section I considers Royce’s position in the history if ideas, with papers on his account of individuation, his expansion on a key idea from Kant, his use and contribution to mathematical and philosophical conceptions of the infinite and the absolute, and his adaptation of Peircean semiotics. Sections II and III consist of focused readings of Royce’s work regarding ethics and religious philosophy, respectively. Section IV is the most diverse in the topics covered, with papers that bring Royce into contemporary discussions of psychology, of the problem of reference, of Rortyan neo-pragmatism, and of literary aesthetics. The purpose of the Opole conference was to elicit fresh perspectives on the work of Josiah Royce from an international group of contributors. This collection achieves that aim by presenting new approaches to relatively familiar writings, by drawing out promising implications of Roycean themes, and by making genuinely new applications of his ideas. Josiah Royce for the Twenty-first Century presents a rich interaction among a diverse mix of commentators, who retrieve and construct promising new insights from the work of one of America's greatest thinkers.

The Religious Aspect of Philosophy

The Religious Aspect of Philosophy PDF Author: Josiah Royce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Faith
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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The Philosophy of Loyalty

The Philosophy of Loyalty PDF Author: Josiah Royce
Publisher:
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Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Community and Loyalty in American Philosophy

Community and Loyalty in American Philosophy PDF Author: Steven A. Miller
Publisher: Routledge Studies in American Philosophy
ISBN: 9781138570238
Category : Philosophy, American
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: 'We': The Dangerous Thing -- 1 The Sellarsian Ethical Framework -- 2 Josiah Royce's Philosophy of Loyalty -- 3 Richard Rorty's Quasi-Sellarsian We -- 4 On the Prospects of Redescribing Rorty Roycely -- Bibliography -- Index

The World and the Individual

The World and the Individual PDF Author: Josiah Royce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 622

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Reverence for the Relations of Life

Reverence for the Relations of Life PDF Author: Frank M. Oppenheim
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 530

Book Description
A provocative look at Josiah Royce's relations with the 'big three' American pragmatists: Charles Pierce, William James, and John Dewey

The Spirit of Modern Philosophy

The Spirit of Modern Philosophy PDF Author: Josiah Royce
Publisher:
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Category : Philosophy, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 598

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Another White Man's Burden

Another White Man's Burden PDF Author: Tommy J. Curry
Publisher: Suny Press
ISBN: 9781438470726
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Winner of the 2020 Josiah Royce Prize in American Idealist Thought, presented by the Josiah Royce Society Another white Man's Burden performs a case study of Josiah Royce's philosophy of racial difference. In an effort to lay bare the ethnological racial heritage of American philosophy, Tommy J. Curry challenges the common notion that the cultural racism of the twentieth century was more progressive and less racist than the biological determinism of the 1800s. Like many white thinkers of his time, Royce believed in the superiority of the white races. Unlike today however, whiteness did not represent only one racial designation but many. Contrary to the view of the British-born Germanophile philosopher Houston S. Chamberlain, for example, who insisted upon the superiority of the Teutonic races, Royce believed it was the Anglo-Saxon lineage that possessed the key to Western civilization. It was the birthright of white America, he believed, to join the imperial ventures of Britain-to take up the white man's burden. To this end he advocated the domestic colonization of Blacks in the American South, suggested that America's xenophobia was natural and necessary to protecting the culture of white America, and demanded the assimilation and elimination of cultural difference for the stability of America's communities. Another white Man's Burden reminds philosophers that racism has been part of the building blocks of American thought for centuries, and that this must be recognized and addressed in order for its proclamations of democracy, community, and social problems to have real meaning.