The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce, Volume I: Culture, Philosophy, and Religion

by John J. McDermott (Editor)

Overview

Back in print and in paperback for the first time, this classic collection illustrates the scope and quality of the thought of one of the most distinguished American philosophers. In two volumes, The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce provides a rich overview of Royce's wide-ranging body of work and a detailed presentation of the relationship he forged between the local experience of community and the demands of a philosophical and scientific vision of the human condition.

As this collection makes clear, Royce offers a thick, expansive philosophical tapestry of thought in social philosophy, logic, the history of philosophy, and moral philosophy, especially in his treatment of the concept of loyalty.

Since this collection was first published in 1969, there has been a significant growth in the quality and quantity of scholarship attendant in many ways on Royce's philosophy. The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce will be a welcome and valuable resource for scholars, teachers, and students in philosophy, intellectual history, religion, and American studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780823282791
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Publication date:	09/18/2018
Series:	American Philosophy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	656
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

JOHN J. MCDERMOTT is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University.His essays have been collected in two earlier volumes: The Culture of Experience: PhilosophicalEssays in the American Grain and Streams of Experience: Reflections on the History andPhilosophy of American Culture. He is also the editor of a stream of important editions,including The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce, reissued by Fordham in 2005.

Table of Contents

Volume 1
	Preface to the Fordham University Press Edition	xv
	Preface	1
	Introduction	3
	Chronology	19
	Bibliographic Abbreviations	21
	Editor's Note on the Text	23
I	An Autobiographical Sketch	29
1	Words of Professor Royce at the Walton Hotel at Philadelphia, December 29, 1915	31
II	The American Context	41
2	The Struggle for Order: Self-Government, Good-Humor and Violence in the Mines	43
3	An Episode of Early California Life: The Squatter Riot of 1850 in Sacramento	119
4	The Settlers at Oakfield Creek	159
5	The Pacific Coast: A Psychological Study of the Relations of Climate and Civilization	181
6	William James and the Philosophy of Life	205
III	The European Background	225
7	Shelley and the Revolution	227
8	Pessimism and Modern Thought	249
9	The Rediscovery of the Inner Life: From Spinoza to Kant	273
10	The Concept of the Absolute and the Dialectical Method	299
IV	Religious Questions	319
11	The Possibility of Error	321
12	The Conception of God: Address by Professor Royce	355
13	Immortality	385
14	Monotheism	403
V	The World and the Individual	421
15	Self-Consciousness, Social Consciousness and Nature	423
16	The Religious Problems and the Theory of Being	463
17	The Internal and External Meaning of Ideas	491
18	The Fourth Conception of Being	543
19	The Linkage of Facts	569
20	The Temporal and the Eternal	611
Volume 2
	Preface to the Fordham University Press Edition	xv
	Preface	639
	Chronology	641
	Bibliographic Abbreviations	643
	Editor's Note on the Text	645
VI	Logic and Methodology	651
21	Recent Logical Inquiries and Their Psychological Bearings	655
22	The Problem of Truth in the Light of Recent Discussion	681
23	The Mechanical, The Historical, and the Statistical	711
24	Mind	735
25	[The Methodology of Science]	763
26	Introduction to Poincare's Science and Hypothesis	769
27	[Types of Order]	785
VII	Moral and Religious Experience	829
28	The Problem of Job	833
29	The Philosophy of Loyalty	855
30	Individual Experience and Social Experience as Sources of Religious Insight	1015
31	The Religious Mission of Sorrow	1039
VIII	Community as Lived	1065
32	Provincialism	1067
33	Race Questions and Prejudices	1089
34	On Certain Limitations of the Thoughtful Public in America	1111
35	The Possibility of International Insurance	1135
36	The Hope of the Great Community	1145
IX	Annotated Bibliography of the Published Works of Josiah Royce by Ignas Skrupskelis	1165
	Index	1227