Josiah Royce

Josiah Royce
Royce, c. 1910
Born(1855-11-20)November 20, 1855
DiedSeptember 14, 1916(1916-09-14) (aged 60)
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA)
Johns Hopkins University (PhD)
Era19th-century philosophy
20th-century philosophy
RegionAmerican philosophy
Western philosophy
SchoolAmerican Pragmatism
Objective idealism
American idealism
ThesisInterdependence of the Principles of Human Knowledge (1878)
Academic advisorsWilliam James
Hermann Lotze
Charles Sanders Peirce
Wilhelm Windelband
Wilhelm Wundt
Doctoral studentsCurt John Ducasse
C. I. Lewis
George Santayana
Henry M. Sheffer
Other notable studentsElla Lyman Cabot
Mary Whiton Calkins
William Henry Chamberlin (philosopher)
Morris Raphael Cohen
W.E.B. DuBois
T.S. Eliot
Edwin Holt
Horace Kallen
Victor Lenzen
Alain Locke
William Pepperell Montague
Robert E. Park
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Anna Boynton Thompson
Norbert Wiener
Main interests
Ethics, philosophy of religion, metaphysics
Notable ideas
the possibility of error, philosophy of loyalty, international insurance
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Josiah Royce (/rɔɪs/; November 20, 1855 – September 14, 1916) was an American Pragmatist and objective idealist philosopher and the founder of American idealism.[5] His philosophical ideas included his joining of pragmatism and idealism, his philosophy of loyalty, and his defense of absolutism.

Royce's "A Word for the Times" (1914) was quoted in the 1936 State of the Union Address by Franklin Delano Roosevelt: "The human race now passes through one of its great crises. New ideas, new issues – a new call for men to carry on the work of righteousness, of charity, of courage, of patience, and of loyalty. [...] I studied, I loved, I labored, unsparingly and hopefully, to be worthy of my generation."

  1. ^ Pinkard, Terry (2002). German Philosophy 1760–1860: The Legacy of Idealism. Cambridge University Press. p. 172. ISBN 9780521663267.
  2. ^ Robert Mark Wenley, The Life and Work of George Sylvester Morris, Macmillan, 1917, p. 139.
  3. ^ Wadge, A. (1972). The Influence of Royce on the Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel (Master's thesis). Durham University.
  4. ^ Miller, David L. (1975). "Josiah Royce and George H. Mead on the Nature of the Self". Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. 11 (2): 67–89. JSTOR 40319730.
  5. ^ Robinson, Daniel Sommer (1968). The Self and the World in the Philosophy of Josiah Royce. Christopher Publishing House. p. 9. Josiah Royce and William Ernest Hocking were the founders and creators of a unique and distinctly American school of idealistic philosophy.