- 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
Self-Consciousness, Social Consciousness and Nature
Self-Consciousness, Social Consciousness and Nature
- Chapter:
- (p.423) 15 Self-Consciousness, Social Consciousness and Nature
- Source:
- The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce, Volume I
- Author(s):
- John J. McDermott
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
This chapter aims to reach, and, in closing, to sketch some views as to the relation of man to nature. It begins by defining the place of the inquiry in the general catalogue of philosophical questions, and then states the theses to be defended. There are two great divisions of philosophy: theoretical and practical. The present analysis deals with a matter belonging to theoretical philosophy, specifically a certain problem of philosophical cosmology. Here about us is the natural world, the world that appears to our senses—a world manifesting some sort of finite and some sort of highly fragmentary truth. Man appears as a part of nature, a product of nature, a being whose destinies seem to be the sport of purely physical laws. The problem that this chapter aims in the end to approach is: What is the meaning of this phenomenal relation of man to nature?
Keywords: man, nature, theoretical philosophy, Josiah Royce, philosophical cosmology
Fordham Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
- 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
