- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Fordham University Press Edition
- Preface
- Chronology
- Bibliographic Abbreviations
- Editor’s Note on the Text
- Part VI Logic and Methodology
- 21 Recent Logical Inquiries and Their Psychological Bearings
- 22 The Problem of Truth in the Light of Recent Discussion
- 23 The Mechanical, the Historical, and the Statistical
- 24 Mind
- 25 The Methodology of Science
- 26 Introduction to Poincaré’s Science and Hypothesis
- 27 Types of Order
- Part VII Moral and Religious Experience
- 28 The Problem of Job
- 29 The Philosophy of Loyalty
- 30 Individual Experience and Social Experience as Sources of Religious Insight
- 31 The Religious Mission of Sorrow
- Part VIII Community as Lived
- 32 Provincialism
- 33 Race Questions and Prejudices
- 34 On Certain Limitations of the Thoughtful Public in America
- 35 The Possibility of International Insurance
- 36 The Hope of the Great Community
- Annotated Bibliography of the Published Works of Josiah Royce
- Index
The Problem of Job
The Problem of Job
- Chapter:
- (p.833) 28 The Problem of Job
- Source:
- The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce, Volume II
- Author(s):
- John J. McDermott
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
This chapter studies the central problem of the Book of Job from the point of view of a student of philosophy. The problem of the book is the personal problem of its hero, Job himself. Discarding, for the first, as of possibly separate authorship, the Prologue, the Epilogue, and the addresses of Elihu and of the Lord, one may as well come at once to the point of view of Job, as expressed in his speeches to his friends. Here is stated the problem of which none of the later additions in the poem offer any intelligible solution. In the exposition of this problem, the original author develops his poetical skill and records thoughts that can never grow old. This is the portion of the book which is most frequently quoted and which best expresses the genuine experience of suffering humanity. Here, then, the philosophical as well as the human interest of the poem centers.
Keywords: Book of Job, philosophy, suffering, humanity, human suffering
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Fordham University Press Edition
- Preface
- Chronology
- Bibliographic Abbreviations
- Editor’s Note on the Text
- Part VI Logic and Methodology
- 21 Recent Logical Inquiries and Their Psychological Bearings
- 22 The Problem of Truth in the Light of Recent Discussion
- 23 The Mechanical, the Historical, and the Statistical
- 24 Mind
- 25 The Methodology of Science
- 26 Introduction to Poincaré’s Science and Hypothesis
- 27 Types of Order
- Part VII Moral and Religious Experience
- 28 The Problem of Job
- 29 The Philosophy of Loyalty
- 30 Individual Experience and Social Experience as Sources of Religious Insight
- 31 The Religious Mission of Sorrow
- Part VIII Community as Lived
- 32 Provincialism
- 33 Race Questions and Prejudices
- 34 On Certain Limitations of the Thoughtful Public in America
- 35 The Possibility of International Insurance
- 36 The Hope of the Great Community
- Annotated Bibliography of the Published Works of Josiah Royce
- Index
