The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce, Volume II Logic, Loyalty, and Community

by McDermott, John J.

• ISBN13: 9780823224845
• ISBN10: 0823224848
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-01
• Publisher: Fordham University Press

Summary

Now back in print, and in paperback, these two classicvolumes illustrate the scope and quality of Royce'sthought, providing the most comprehensive selection ofhis writings currently available. They offer a detailedpresentation of the viable relationship Royce forgedbetween the local experience of community and thedemands of a philosophical and scientific vision ofthe human situation.The selections reprinted here are basic to any understandingof Royce's thought and its pressing relevanceto contemporary cultural, moral, and religious issues.

Author Biography

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	(2)
Introduction	3	(16)
Chronology	19	(2)
Bibliographic Abbreviations	21	(2)
Editor's Note on the Text	23	(6)
I An Autobiographical Sketch	29	(12)
1. Words of Professor Royce at the Walton Hotel at Philadelphia, December 29, 1915	31	(10)
II The American Context	41	(184)
2. The Struggle for Order: Self-Government, Good-Humor and Violence in the Mines	43	(76)
3. An Episode of Early California Life: The Squatter Riot of 1850 in Sacramento	119	(40)
4. The Settlers at Oak field Creek	159	(22)
5. The Pacific Coast: A Psychological Study of the Relations of Climate and Civilization	181	(24)
6. William James and the Philosophy of Life	205	(20)
III The European Background	225	(94)
7. Shelley and the Revolution	227	(22)
8. Pessimism and Modern Thought	249	(24)
9. The Rediscovery of the Inner Life: From Spinoza to Kant	273	(26)
10. The Concept of the Absolute and the Dialectical Method	299	(20)
IV Religious Questions	319	(102)
11. The Possibility of Error	321	(34)
12. The Conception of God: Address by Professor Royce	355	(30)
13. Immortality	385	(18)
14. Monotheism	403	(18)
V The World and the Individual	421	(218)
15. Self-Consciousness, Social Consciousness and Nature	423	(40)
16. The Religious Problems and the Theory of Being	463	(28)
17. The Internal and External Meaning of Ideas	491	(52)
18. The Fourth Conception of Being	543	(26)
19. The Linkage of Facts	569	(42)
20. The Temporal and the Eternal	611	(28)
VOLUME 2
Preface to the Fordham University Press Edition	xv
Preface	639	(2)
Chronology	641	(2)
Bibliographic Abbreviations	643	(2)
Editor's Note on the Text	645	(6)
VI Logic and Methodology	651	(178)
21. Recent Logical Inquiries and Their Psychological Bearings	655	(26)
22. The Problem of Truth in the Light of Recent Discussion	681	(30)
23. The Mechanical, The Historical, and the Statistical	711	(24)
24. Mind	735	(28)
25. [The Methodology of Science]	763	(6)
26. Introduction to Poincaré's Science and Hypothesis	769	(16)
27. [Types of Order]	785	(44)
VII Moral and Religious Experience	829	(236)
28. The Problem of Job	833	(22)
29. The Philosophy of Loyalty	855	(160)
30. Individual Experience and Social Experience as Sources of Religious Insight	1015	(24)
31. The Religious Mission of Sorrow	1039	(26)
VIII Community as Lived	1065	(100)
32. Provincialism	1067	(22)
33. Race Questions and Prejudices	1089	(22)
34. On Certain Limitations of the Thoughtful Public in America	1111	(24)
35. The Possibility of International Insurance	1135	(10)
36. The Hope of the Great Community	1145	(20)
IX Annotated Bibliography of the Published Works of Josiah Royce by Ignas Skrupskelis	1165	(62)
Index	1227