- 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 Concept of the Absolute and the Dialectical Method
The Concept of the Absolute and the Dialectical Method
- Chapter:
- (p.299) 10 The Concept of the Absolute and the Dialectical Method
- Source:
- The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce, Volume I
- Author(s):
- John J. McDermott
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
This chapter discusses the transition from Kant's view of the self to that deeper but more problematic conception of the self which characterized the later idealism. The transition from Kant's philosophy to the later idealism was a reflection of the spirit which determined the course of contemporary social events. Three features marked the mental life in Germany during the decades with which the eighteenth century closed and the nineteenth century opened, say from 1770 to 1805. The first feature was the great development of actual productive power in scholarship, literature, imaginative work, and the accompanying increase in the popular respect for great individuals. The second was that deepening of sentiment, that enrichment of emotional life, which characterized first the storm and stress period, and later both the classical and the romantic literatures of Germany in those decades. The third feature was that relative indifference to mere political fortunes.
Keywords: Immanuel Kant, self, idealism, German philosophy, mental life, Germany, 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