Josiah Royce
Also known as J. Royce
American philosopher (1855–1916)
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- 1855
- Died
- 1916
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- 125
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- The mechanical, the historical and the statistical
- James as a philosopher
- Royce's Logical essays
- The relation of the principles of logic to the foundations of geomety
- The present position of the problem of natural religion
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Josiah Royce (/rɔɪs/; November 20, 1855 – September 14, 1916) was an American pragmatist and objective idealist philosopher and the founder of American idealism. His philosophical ideas included his joining of pragmatism and idealism, his philosophy of loyalty, and his defense of absolutism.
Royce's essay "A Word for the Times" (December 1914) was quoted in the 1936 State of the Union Address by Franklin Delano Roosevelt: "The human race now passes through one of its great crises. New ideas, new issues – a new call for men to carry on the work of righteousness, of charity, of courage, of patience, and of loyalty. [...] I studied, I loved, I labored, unsparingly and hopefully, to be worthy of my generation."
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