Josiah Royce: 12 books

In 1908, American philosopher Josiah Royce foresaw the future. Race questions and prejudices, he said, "promise to become, in the near future, still more important than they have ever been before." Like his student W. E. B. Du Bois in Souls of Black Folk (1903), Royce recognized that the...

The Sources Of Religious Insight Josiah Royce, american objective idealist philosopher (1855-1916) This ebook presents «The Sources Of Religious Insight», from Josiah Royce. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this...

A unique and honored figure in American intellectual history, Josiah Royce stands out as a master of many disciplines who made significant contributions to mathematical logic, psychology, social ethics, literary criticism, and history as well as metaphysics. These thirteen lectures elucidate his...

This 1897 volume constitutes a rigorous debate between Royce and three other scholars:  Professor Joseph Le Conte, Professor G. H. Howison, and Professor Sidney Edward Mezes.  Royce's title essay is followed by criticisms from each professor.  Royce then responds to his critics, defending his original thesis, which derives from his idealist philosophy.

Published in 1913 and based on Royce's Hibbert Lectures delivered at Oxford, this first of a two-volume series is subtitled "The Christian Doctrine of Life." Focusing on the issue of what essential Christianity is—this book discusses Royce’s ideas of a universal community, the individual and his moral burden, guilt, time, and much more.

Written during the last year of Royce's life, and published posthumously in 1916, this volume of essays was directly concerned with World War I.  Here Royce seeks to give his philosophy a concrete role to play in ending the Great War and bringing a lasting peace to the world.

In this 1885 work Royce propounds what would become the cornerstone of his philosophy: the existence of an Absolute Knower whose infinite mind contains every possible truth and error. Royce suggests a great deal of doubt brings us away from God, but a little doubt brings us closer.

Published in 1912, this collection of seven essays sets out Royce's own religious views on such topics as "The Religious Problem and the Human Individual," "Individual and Social Experience as Sources of Religious Insight," "The World and the Will," and "The Religious Mission of Sorrow."  The New York Times called it "vital and intelligible."

Published in 1899, this first volume of what many consider Royce's masterwork expands upon his Gifford Lectures, delivered at Aberdeen University in January and February of that year. Grouped under the topic title “The Four Historical Conceptions of Being,” these ten essays include "The Religious...

This collection of essays, posthumously published in 1918 sets forth Royce's philosophy of idealism and traces its development from Kant through Schelling and finally to Hegel.

Published in 1913 and based on Royce's Hibbert Lectures delivered at Oxford, this second of a two-volume series is subtitled "The Real World and the Christian Ideas." Focusing on the metaphysical basis of Christianity and the issues therein—the book covers such topics as the will to interpret, conception and perception, the doctrine of signs, and more.

This 1892 collection contains thirteen essays divided into two parts:  "Studies of Thinkers and Problems," which addresses such philosophers as Kant, Spinoza, Hegel, Fichte, and Schopenhauer, and "Suggestions of Doctrine," which explores such subjects as "Nature and Evolution," "Reality and Idealism," and "Optimism, Pessimism, and the Moral Order."