TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mahowald, Mary Briody
AU  - Mahowald,Mary Briody
TI  - An Idealistic Pragmatism:  The Development of the Pragmatic Element in the Philosophy of Josiah Royce
SN  - 9024711843   
U1  - N78.1RJ 
PY  - 1972///
CY  - London
PB  - Martinus Nijhoff
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; propaedeutic to a study of royce	3    The nature of Royce`s idealism	3   The religious content of Royce`s thought	7   The empirical grounding of Royce`s philosophy	10  possibilities for a roycean pragmatism	15  The pragmatists that influenced Royce	17  The notions of pragmatism that influenced Royce	20   A pragmatism consistent with idealism	25  THE EARLY ROYCE (c. 1875-90)  His theory of knowledge	31    Royce`s early stress on the practical purposefulness of all speculation	31    The usefulness of doubt and postulate in philosophizing	34  The limited function of verification and the role of insight	37   The relativity of truth and error	40   His notion of the absolute	43   The function of belief, its origin and constitution	43   The Absolute Thought, perfectly fulfilling experience	48   The Universal Will, aiming at organization of experience	51   The relationship of the Absolute to the problem of evil	53  His conception of the individualA.	  Meaning, worth, and importance of the individual  A practical answer to individualism  The nature and significance of progress for the individual                                                                                                                         THE MIDDLE PERIOD (c. 1890-1906)                                                                                                              theory of knowledge pragmatically allied with doctrine of interpretation	71                                                           Other theories of being as interpretations                                                                                                                                                       The synthetic view of Royce                                                                                                                                                                                     The essentially social character of the knowing process                                                                                                                                            notion  of  the  absolute  more  pragmatically                                                                                                    orientated	86                                                                                                                                                          An explanation and definition of God in terms of Experience                                                                                                                        The relation of will to the Absolute                                                                                                                                                                       The union between God and man                                                                                                                                                                      conception   of   the   individual   pragmatically                                                                                                     leads to consideration of community	101                                                                                                       Royce`s conception of the self                                                                                                                                                                                        Love as the principle of individuation                                                                                                                                                             Freedom and responsibility of the self                                                                                                                                                            Community as fulfilling the individual
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