Josiah Royce

Josiah Royce ( born November 20, 1855 in Grass Valley, California, † September 14, 1916 in Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American philosopher. Royce grew up in the American West, and received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1875 from the University of California. He then spent a year studying in Heidelberg, Leipzig and Göttingen. His doctorate was awarded Royce 1878 by The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (Dissertation: "On the Interdependence of the Principles of Knowledge .") In 1882, he joined the Harvard faculty in 1892 ordered him to Harvard University for "Professor of the History of Philosophy ". Royce 's friend and ( mighty ) colleague of William James and - in the late phase of his life - an important discussion partner of Charles S. Peirce. (See John Clendenning, The Life and Thought of Josiah Royce, pp. XV- XVII) to Royce 's famous students include Henry Maurice Sheffer, George H. Mead, Clarence Irving Lewis, a pioneer of modal logic, and EV Huntington, who as first formulated the axioms of Boolean algebra.

Philosophical views

Royce 's multi-faceted work was in continuous - affirmative and critical - dealing with the pragmatism of William James and Charles Sanders Peirce pragmatisism. Seinen - in the post-analytical and neo- pragmatist discourse increasingly discussed - approach described Royce himself as "a post- Kantian, empirically modified, Idealism, somewhat Influenced by the Hegelian, ie but not uninfluenced by Schopenhauerian motives, with a dash of spruce added. " ( John Clendenning, The Life and Thought of Josiah Royce, p 212). Royce 's thought has in all its stages in addition to the epistemological dimension and a religious-philosophical circles in Royce 's late work around the key concept of "community ", which is fanned complex, ie of the " scientific community " experimenting scientists up to a " religious community " ( "Beloved community" ) is sufficient.

Works, selection

  • The Religious Aspect of Philosophy ( 1885)
  • The Spirit of Modern Philosophy (1892 )
  • The Conception of God ( 1897)
  • The Conception of Immortality (1900)
  • The World and the Individual ( First Series, 1899, Second Series, 1901)
  • The Philosophy of Loyalty (1908 )
  • " The Problem of Truth in the Light of Recent Discussion ," Report on the III International Congress of Philosophy, Heidelberg: Winter, 1908.
  • William James and Other Essays on the Philosophy of Life ( 1912)
  • The Sources of Religious Insight ( 1912)
  • The Problem of Christianity (1913 ) (Reprint 2001, The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, DC, with the Introduction by John E. Smith and with a new Foreword and a revised and expanded index by Frank M. Oppenheim )
  • The Hope of the Great Community (1916 )
  • Two-volume collected works: The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce. edited with an Introduction by John J. McDermott. Including Annotated Bibliography of Publications of the of Josiah Royce, Prepared by Ignas S. Skrupskelis, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1996.

More recent literature on Royce

  • John Clendenning: The Life and Thought of Josiah Royce. Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville / London 1999, ISBN 0-8265-1322-0.
  • Frank M. Oppenheim: Reverence for the Relations of Life. Re - imagining Pragmatism via Josiah Royce 's Interactions with Peirce, James, and Dewey. University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana 2005, ISBN 0-268-04019-2.
  • Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegely: Josiah Royce in Focus. Indiana University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-253-21959-6.
  • Kelly A. Parker, Krzysztof Piotr Sklowronski (ed.): Josiah Royce for the Twenty- First Century. Lexington Books, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Lanham / Boulder / New York / Toronto / Plymouth UK 2012, ISBN 978-0-7391-7336-7. (Contains Posts by Randall E. Auxier, Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley, Ignas S. Skrupskelis, Ludwig Nagl and others). (From the introduction by the editors, page 3: " Royce Appears poised to emerge as to influential voice in what is admittedly only a nascent post- pragmatist, post- analytic, and post -Continental style of thought. " )
  • Albert Raffelt: Royce, Josiah. In: Biographic- bibliographic church encyclopedia ( BBKL ). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0, 868-880 Sp. (Articles / Articles beginning possibly in the Internet Archive )

Recent essays on Royce:

  • James Conant: The James / Royce dispute and the development of James's ' solution '. In: Ruth Anna Putnam (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to William James. Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-521-45906-0, pp. 186-213.
  • Ludwig Nagl: Hegel, a ' proto- pragmatist '? Rorty halved Hegel and the timeliness of Royce 's ' absolute pragmatism '. In: Rüdiger Bubner, Gunnar Hindrichs (ed.): From logic to language. Stuttgart Hegel Congress in 2005. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 2007, pp. 390-411.
  • Ludwig Nagl: ' Community ': Considerations for ' absolute pragmatism ' in the later philosophy of Josiah Royce. In: Ludwig Nagl: The Veiled Absolute. Essays on contemporary philosophy of religion. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt aM 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-56915-3, pp. 221-258.
  • Ludwig Nagl: Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion: The Jamessche approach to the individual and the ' community' concept -oriented religion concept of Royce. In: Ludwig Nagl: The Veiled Absolute. Essays on contemporary philosophy of religion. 2012, pp. 259-294.
  • Ludwig Nagl: ` loyalty ': Josiah Royce 's pragmatizistisches concept of ethics and religion ( according to Kant, Hegel, according to pragmatism. ). In: Ludwig Nagl: The Veiled Absolute. Essays on contemporary philosophy of religion. 2012, pp. 295-325.
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