Josiah Royce

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Josiah Royce

Josiah Royce (born November 20, 1855 in Grass Valley , California , † September 14, 1916 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) was an American philosopher.

Life

Royce grew up in the American West and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California in 1875. He then studied for a year in Heidelberg, Leipzig and Göttingen. Royce received his doctorate in 1878 from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (dissertation: "On the Interdependence of the Principles of Knowledge".)

In 1882 he became a member of the Harvard Faculty, in 1891 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1892 Harvard University appointed him "Professor of the History of Philosophy". In 1898 he was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters . In 1906 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences . From 1916 he was a corresponding member of the British Academy .

Royce was a friend and colleague of William James and - in the latter part of his life - an important discussion partner of Charles S. Peirce (see John Clendenning, The Life and Thought of Josiah Royce , pp. XV-XVII). His most famous students included Henry Maurice Sheffer , George H. Mead , Clarence Irving Lewis , a pioneer of modal logic , and Edward Vermilye Huntington , who was the first to formulate the axioms of Boolean algebra .

Philosophical views

Royce's multi-layered oeuvre emerged from constant - affirmative and critical - confrontation with the pragmatism of William James and the pragmatism of Charles Sanders Peirce. Royce himself described his approach - increasingly discussed in post-analytical and neo-pragmatic discourse - as "a post-Kantian, empirically modified, idealism, somewhat influenced by Hegelian, but also not uninfluenced by Schopenhauerian motives, with a dash of Fichte added." John Clendenning, The Life and Thought of Josiah Royce , p. 212). In all of its phases, Royce's thinking has, in addition to the epistemological dimension, a religious-philosophical dimension and, in Royce's late work, revolves around the central concept of the “community”, which is fanned out in a complex manner, i. H. from the “research community” of experimental natural scientists to the “religious community” (“beloved community”).

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)
  • Lectures of Modern Idealism (Ed.Jacob Loewenberg) (1919)
  • Fugitive Essays (Ed.Jacob Loewenberg) (1920)
  • Two-volume work edition: The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce. edited with an Introduction by John J. McDermott. Including an Annotated Bibliography of the Publications of Josiah Royce, Prepared by Ignas S. Skrupskelis, The University of Chicago Press, Chikago and London, 1996.

Recent Royce Literature

  • John Clendenning: The Life and Thought of Josiah Royce. Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville / London 1999, ISBN 0-8265-1322-0 .
  • Carl Friedrich Gethmann (Philosopher) : Royce , in: Jürgen Mittelstraß (Ed.): Encyclopedia Philosophy and Philosophy of Science. 2nd Edition. Volume 7. Stuttgart, Metzler 2018, ISBN 978-3-476-02106-9 , p. 184 f. (with a detailed list of works and references)
  • 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 (eds.): 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 . (includes contributions by Randall E. Auxier, Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley, Ignas S. Skrupskelis, Ludwig Nagl, and others). (From the editor's introduction, p. 3: "Royce appears poised to emerge as an influential voice in what is admittedly only a nascent post-pragmatist, post-analytic, and post-Continental style of thought.")
  • Albert RaffeltRoyce, Josiah. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 868-880.

Recent articles 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's halved Hegel and the topicality of Royce's 'absolute pragmatism'. In: Rüdiger Bubner , Gunnar Hindrichs (eds.): From logic to language. Stuttgart Hegel Congress 2005. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2007, pp. 390-411.
  • Ludwig Nagl: 'Community': considerations on 'absolute pragmatism' in Josiah Royce's late philosophy. In: Ludwig Nagl: The veiled absolute. Essays on contemporary religious philosophy. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-56915-3 , pp. 221-258.
  • Ludwig Nagl: Pragmatistic Philosophy of Religion: The James approach to the individual and Royce's concept of religion, which is based on the 'community' concept. In: Ludwig Nagl: The veiled absolute. Essays on contemporary religious philosophy. 2012, pp. 259-294.
  • Ludwig Nagl: 'Loyalty': Josiah Royce's pragmatic concept of ethics and religion ( after Kant, after Hegel, after. Pragmatism). In: Ludwig Nagl: The veiled absolute. Essays on contemporary religious philosophy. 2012, pp. 295-325.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members: Josiah Royce. Amrican Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 23, 2019 .
  2. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 26, 2020 .