Now back in print, and in paperback, these two classic volumes illustrate the scope and quality of Royce’s thought, providing the most comprehensive selection of his writings currently available. They offer a detailed presentation of the viable relationship Royce forged between the local experience of community and the demands of a philosophical and scientific vision of the human situation. The selections reprinted here are basic to any understanding of Royce’s thought and its pressing relevance
to contemporary cultural, moral, and religious issues.
- Cover
- The Basic Writings of JOSIAH ROYCE Volume 1
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Preface to the Fordham University Press Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Bibliographic Abbreviations
- Editor's Note on the Text
- I An Autobiographical Sketch
- 1. Words of Professor Royce at the Walton Hotel at Philadelphia, December 29, 1915
- II The American Context
- 2. The Struggle for Order: Self-Government, Good-Humor and Violence in the Mines
- 3. An Episode of Early California Life: The Squatter Riot of 1850 in Sacramento
- 4. The Settlers at Oakfield Creek
- 5. The Pacific Coast: A Psychological Study of the Relations of Climate and Civilization
- 6. William James and the Philosophy of Life
- III The European Background
- 7. Shelley and the Revolution
- 8. Pessimism and Modern Thought
- 9. The Rediscovery of the Inner Life: From Spinoza to Kant
- 10. The Concept of the Absolute and the Dialectical Method
- IV Religious Questions
- 11. The Possibility of Error
- 12. The Conception of God: Address by Professor Royce
- 13. Immortality
- 14. Monotheism
- V The World and the Individual
- 15. Self-Consciousness, Social Consciousness and Nature
- 16. The Religious Problems and the Theory of Being
- 17. The Internal and External Meaning of Ideas
- 18. The Fourth Conception of Being
- 19. The Linkage of Facts
- 20. The Temporal and the Eternal
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