Metaphysics
An edited transcript of the great Harvard philosopher Josiah Royce's last year-long course in metaphysics, given at Harvard in 1915-1916.

This book is an edited transcript of Josiah Royce's last year-long course in metaphysics at Harvard in 1915–1916.

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Metaphysics
An edited transcript of the great Harvard philosopher Josiah Royce's last year-long course in metaphysics, given at Harvard in 1915-1916.

This book is an edited transcript of Josiah Royce's last year-long course in metaphysics at Harvard in 1915–1916.

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An edited transcript of the great Harvard philosopher Josiah Royce's last year-long course in metaphysics, given at Harvard in 1915-1916.

This book is an edited transcript of Josiah Royce's last year-long course in metaphysics at Harvard in 1915–1916.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780791438657
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 08/13/1998
Series: SUNY Series in Philosophy
Pages: 346
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Richard Hocking is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Emory University and son of the late William Ernest Hocking. Frank Oppenheim is Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University. He is the author of Royce's Mature Philosophy of Religion and Royce's Voyage Down Under, and editor of The Reasoning Heart: Towards a North American Theology.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Symbols and Abbreviations

Highpoints of Josiah Royce's Intellectual Development

Analytical Table of Chapters

Part I: The "Social Approach" to Metaphysics

Chapter 1: Introduction: The "Social Approach" to Metaphysics

Chapter 2: The Social Nature of Knowledge: The Theory of Interpretation

Chapter 3: The Social Theory of Truth

Part II: The "Logical Approach" to Metaphysics

Chapter 4: Santayana on "is": His Sharp Distinction between Essence and Existence

Chapter 5: The Relational Form of the Ontological Argument

Chapter 6: Identity and Identification

Chapter 7: Mysticism

Chapter 8: The Third Conception of Being

Chapter 9: The Fourth Conception of Being

Midyear and Final Examinations in Phil. 9, Metaphysics, 1915-1916

Supplementary Essays:

Provenance of the Phil. 9 Course and Present Text of Royce's Last Lectures on Metaphysics, 1915-1916—Frank Oppenheim

Excerpts from "The Ontological Argument in Royce and Others"—William Ernest Hocking

Resources

Notes

Critical Apparatus

Comments Interjected by the Stenographer, Ralph W. Brown

Selected Glossary of Persons to Whom Royce Refers in His Phil. 9 Course of 1915-1916

Index of Persons

Index of Topics

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