Category: Royce
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More on Meditation: Worldling and Quester
The New Zealander to whom I replied in Impediments to Meditation responds: . . . you rightly sense that there was a certain selfish ambition in my turning to meditation. Though following your post Meditation: What and Why, my stated ambition was to achieve what you called "tranquility". To use your terminology from the article, I grew…
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Private Judgment?
Yesterday I commented critically on the Roman Catholic teaching on indulgences. One who refuses to accept, or questions, a teaching of the Church on faith or morals may be accused of reliance upon private judgment and failure to submit to the Magisterium or teaching authority of the Church. Two quick observations on this accusation. First,…
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Royce Revisited: Individuality and Immortality
This is a draft of a paper from years ago (early aughts) that it looks like I may never finish. But it is relevant to present concerns. So here it is. …………………………………………………… ROYCE REVISITED: INDIVIDUALITY AND IMMORTALITY “What is it that makes any real being an individual?” Near the beginning of his 1899 Ingersoll lecture,…
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Josiah Royce and the Religious Paradox
There are tough questions about the possibility and the actuality of divine revelation. An examination of some ideas of the neglected philosopher Josiah Royce (1855-1916) from the Golden Age of American philosophy will help us clarify some of the issues and problems. One such problem is this: How can one know in a given case…