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William Royce’s first collection of humorous essays, short stories, sketches and cartoons entitled, I Know Why the Caged Pig Oinks ~ And Other Love Stories was published by Chanticleer Publishing in May 2012. The book is dedicated to the memory of Royce’s childhood friend, James Whearty.
Aug 3, 2004 · Josiah Royce (1855–1916) was the leading American proponent of absolute idealism, the metaphysical view (also maintained by G. W. F. Hegel and F. H. Bradley) that all aspects of reality, including those we experience as disconnected or contradictory, are ultimately unified in the thought of a single all-encompassing consciousness. Royce also ...
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William James, Royce’s friend and philosophical antagonist, secured the opportunity for Royce to replace James at Harvard when James took a one-year sabbatical. In 1882, Royce accepted the position at half of James’ salary and brought his wife and newborn son across the continent to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Jan 6, 2010 · Summary. William James and Josiah Royce were colleagues and friendly critics of each other's thought for some twenty-five years in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard during a time which has been called the ‘Golden Period’ of American philosophy. James, the elder of the two, was responsible for bringing Royce to Harvard from the ...
- John E. Smith
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Aug 3, 2004 · Such heroic individualism, also associated with Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William James, proves unsatisfactory in Royce's view (Royce 1995 [1908], 41). Their inspiring ethical visions are doomed to ineffectiveness precisely because of their extreme individualism. "There is only one way to be an ethical individual.
Royce accepts the opportunity to return to the East Coast when William James takes a year’s sabbatical leave from Harvard and asks Royce to take his place. Royce arrives in Cambridge with his wife and infant son. 1882 Royce begins teaching elementary logic and psychology, and a course on John Locke, David Hume, and George Berkeley.
Sharing William James’ conviction that “no one of us can get along without the far-reaching beams of light [philosophy] sends over the world’s perspectives” (qtd. on xi), Richard Mullin’s new book seeks to communicate the ethical and spiritual insights of William James, Josiah Royce, and Charles Sanders Peirce to a non-specialist ...
