Metaphysics (S U N Y Series in Philosophy) - Couverture souple

Royce, Josiah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 079143866X ISBN 13 : 9780791438664

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1998

Synopsis

This book is an edited transcript of Josiah Royce's last year-long course in metaphysics at Harvard in 1915-1916. Nowhere else did Royce have an opportunity to explain the relations between his two most ambitious works, The World and the Individual and The Problem of Christianity and to show how they complement each other, the former being the 'logical' approach to metaphysics and the latter the 'social' approach. In extended discussions aimed at showing the justice done to realism in his idealistic philosophy, Royce responds to the thought of George Santayana, Bertrand Russell, and R. B. Perry and shows in particular that Santayana's sundering the connections between essence and existence leaves him with an incoherent position that cannot make room for the individual; that Russell's defining the real in terms of truth makes an appeal to possible experience and this goes beyond present fact; and that Perry's celebrated 'ego-centric' predicament is a superficial presentation of what idealism is supposed to mean and is easily resolved.

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À propos de l?auteur

Richard Hocking is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Emory University and son of the late William Ernest Hocking. Frank Oppenheim is Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University. He is the author of Royce's Mature Philosophy of Religion and Royce's Voyage Down Under, and editor of The Reasoning Heart: Towards a North American Theology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 079143866X
• ISBN 13: 9780791438664
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 374
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