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Josiah Royce

Born

in Grass Valley, California, The United States

November 20, 1855

Died

September 14, 1916

Website

http://www.roycesociety.org/

Genre

Philosophy, Nonfiction

Influences

George Santayana, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James ...more

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Life

Royce, born in Grass Valley, California on November 20, 1855. He was the son of Josiah and Sarah Eleanor (Bayliss) Royce, whose families were recent English emigrants, and who sought their fortune in the westward movement of the American pioneers in 1849. He received the B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley (which moved from Oakland to Berkeley during his matriculation) in 1875 where he later accepted an instructorship teaching English composition, literature, and rhetoric. After some time in Germany, where he studied with Hermann Lotze, the new Johns Hopkins University awarded him in 1878 one of its first four doctorates, in philosophy. At Johns Hopkins he taught a course on the history of German thought, which was “one of Life

Royce, born in Grass Valley, California on November 20, 1855. He was the son of Josiah and Sarah Eleanor (Bayliss) Royce, whose families were recent English emigrants, and who sought their fortune in the westward movement of the American pioneers in 1849. He received the B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley (which moved from Oakland to Berkeley during his matriculation) in 1875 where he later accepted an instructorship teaching English composition, literature, and rhetoric. After some time in Germany, where he studied with Hermann Lotze, the new Johns Hopkins University awarded him in 1878 one of its first four doctorates, in philosophy. At Johns Hopkins he taught a course on the history of German thought, which was “one of his chief interests” because he was able to give consideration to the philosophy of history.[1] After four years at the University of California, Berkeley, he went to Harvard in 1882 as a sabbatical replacement for William James, who was at once Royce's friend and philosophical antagonist. Royce's position at Harvard was made permanent in 1884 and he remained there until his death, September 14, 1916.

Historiography

Royce stands out starkly in the philosophical crowd because he was the only major American philosopher who spent a significant period of his life studying and writing history, specifically of the American West. “As one of the four giants in American philosophy of his time […] Royce overshadowed himself as historian, in both reputation and output” (Pomeroy, 2). During his first three years at Harvard, Royce taught many different subjects such as English composition, forensics, psychology and philosophy for other professors. Although he eventually settled into writing philosophy, his early adulthood was characterized by wide-ranging interests, during which he wrote a novel, investigated paranormal phenomena (as a skeptic), and published a significant body of literary criticism. Only as historian and philosopher did he distinguish himself. Royce spread himself too thin, however, and in 1888 suffered a nervous breakdown which required him to take a leave of absence from his duties. ...more

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	The Philosophy of Loyalty by Josiah Royce, John J. McDermott (Introduction) 3.59 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1908 — 102 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	روح الفلسفة الحديثة by Josiah Royce, أحمد الأنصاري (Goodreads Author) (ترجمة), حسن حنفي (مراجعة) 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1892 — 84 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lectures on Modern Idealism 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1919 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	مصادر البصيرة الدينية by Josiah Royce, أحمد الأنصاري (Goodreads Author) (ترجمة) 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1912 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	California: A Study of American Character : From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco (California Legacy Book) by Josiah Royce, Ronald A. Wells 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1973 — 80 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Problem of Christianity: With a new introduction by Frank M. Oppenheim 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2001 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	World and the Individual: Nature, Man, and the Moral Order 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1901 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	مبادئ المنطق by Josiah Royce, أحمد الأنصاري (Goodreads Author) (ترجمة), حسن حنفي (مراجعة) 2.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	الجانب الديني للفلسفة: نقد لأسس السلوك والإيمان by Josiah Royce, أحمد الأنصاري (Goodreads Author) (ترجمه), حسن حنفي (مراجعة) 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1885 — 93 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	العالم والفرد: المفاهيم الأربعة التاريخية في الوجود - المجلد الأول by Josiah Royce, أحمد الأنصاري (Goodreads Author) (ترجمة وتقديم), حسن حنفي (مراجعة) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1899 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.”
― Josiah Royce

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“Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to interpreting the meaning of the civilization which they have represented.”
― Josiah Royce, The Problem of Christianity: With a new introduction by Frank M. Oppenheim

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“Speech has, indeed, its origin in social conformity.”
― Josiah Royce, The philosophy of loyalty

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