- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Fordham University Press Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Bibliographic Abbreviations
- Editor's Note on the Text
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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
The Rediscovery of the Inner Life: From Spinoza to Kant
The Rediscovery of the Inner Life: From Spinoza to Kant
- Chapter:
- (p.273) 9 The Rediscovery of the Inner Life: From Spinoza to Kant
- Source:
- The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce, Volume I
- Author(s):
- John J. McDermott
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
This chapter considers stages of growing intelligence, and even of growing spiritual knowledge, marked by an inevitable and lamentable decline in apparent depth and vitality of spiritual experience. In such stages, the greatest concerns of our lives are somehow for a while hidden, even forgotten. We become more knowing, more clever, more critical, more wary, more skeptical, but we seemingly do not grow more profound or more reverent. Such a stage in human experience is represented, in great part, by the philosophical thinkers who flourished between the time of Spinoza's death, in 1677 and the appearance of Kant's chief philosophical work, “The Critique of Pure Reason” in 1781. It is the period which has been especially associated, in historical tradition, with the eighteenth century.
Keywords: Josiah Royce, Spinoza, Immanuel Kant, philosophy, inner life, spiritual experience, eighteenth century
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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
