- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Fordham University Press Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Bibliographic Abbreviations
- Editor's Note on the Text
-
Part I An Autobiographical Sketch -
1 Words of Professor Royce at the Walton Hotel at Philadelphia December 29,1915 -
Part II The American Context -
2 The Struggle for Order: Self-Government, Good-Humor and Violence in the Mines -
3 An Episode of Early California Life: The Squatter Riot of 1850 in Sacramento -
4 The Settlers at Oakfield Creek -
5 The Pacific Coast: A Psychological Study of the Relations of Climate and Civilization -
6 William James and the Philosophy of Life -
Part III The European Background -
7 Shelley and the Revolution -
8 Pessimism and Modern Thought -
9 The Rediscovery of the Inner Life: From Spinoza to Kant -
10 The Concept of the Absolute and the Dialectical Method - Part IV Religious Questions
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11 The Possibility of Error -
12 The Conception of God Address by Professor Royce -
13 Immortality -
14 Monotheism - Part V The World and the Individual
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15 Self-Consciousness, Social Consciousness and Nature -
16 The Religious Problems and the Theory of Being -
17 The Internal and External Meaning of Ideas -
18 The Fourth Conception of Being -
19 The Linkage of Facts -
20 The Temporal and the Eternal - American Philosophy Series Douglas R. Anderson and Jude Jones, series editors
William James and the Philosophy of Life
William James and the Philosophy of Life
- Chapter:
- (p.205) 6 William James and the Philosophy of Life
- Source:
- The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce, Volume I
- Author(s):
- John J. McDermott
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
This chapter presents some comments about the significance of William James's philosophy. James was a friend of Josiah Royce from his youth to the end of James's beneficent life. As a pupil of James for a brief time, Royce thought of himself as James's disciple; although perhaps a very bad one. According to Royce, James is an American philosopher of classic rank because he stands for a stage in our national self-consciousness—for a stage with which historians of our national mind must always reckon. This statement shall be the focus of the present discussion, which also estimates the significance of the stage in question, and of James's thought insofar as it seems to express the ideas and ideals characteristic of this phase of national life.
Keywords: William James, philosophy, American philosopher, national life, national self-consciousness, Josiah Royce
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Fordham University Press Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Bibliographic Abbreviations
- Editor's Note on the Text
-
Part I An Autobiographical Sketch -
1 Words of Professor Royce at the Walton Hotel at Philadelphia December 29,1915 -
Part II The American Context -
2 The Struggle for Order: Self-Government, Good-Humor and Violence in the Mines -
3 An Episode of Early California Life: The Squatter Riot of 1850 in Sacramento -
4 The Settlers at Oakfield Creek -
5 The Pacific Coast: A Psychological Study of the Relations of Climate and Civilization -
6 William James and the Philosophy of Life -
Part III The European Background -
7 Shelley and the Revolution -
8 Pessimism and Modern Thought -
9 The Rediscovery of the Inner Life: From Spinoza to Kant -
10 The Concept of the Absolute and the Dialectical Method - Part IV Religious Questions
-
11 The Possibility of Error -
12 The Conception of God Address by Professor Royce -
13 Immortality -
14 Monotheism - Part V The World and the Individual
-
15 Self-Consciousness, Social Consciousness and Nature -
16 The Religious Problems and the Theory of Being -
17 The Internal and External Meaning of Ideas -
18 The Fourth Conception of Being -
19 The Linkage of Facts -
20 The Temporal and the Eternal - American Philosophy Series Douglas R. Anderson and Jude Jones, series editors