Yes, But Not Quite: Encountering Josiah Royce's Ethico-Religious Insight

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Index  A Common Faith (Dewey), 3 A History of Philosophical Ideas in America (Werkmeister), 28–29 A History of Philosophy in America (Murphey), 10 A Study of Religion (Martineau), 20 Absolute as actual experience, 36 as agapic love, 72 as completed actuality, 36 Hegelian Absolute, 10 pluralistic monism and, 71–72 as individual, 10 individuality and, 71 as living logos, 9 non-causality of as Ideal, 147n–48n possibilities and, 36, 143n as preserver of all particularities, 10 proving existence to non–JudeoChristian , 25 removal from ontological vocabulary , 49 absolute, eternality, 93 Absolute Experience, 18–19, 22–24, 138n–39n absolute idealism, Howison’s abandonment , 14 Absolute particular, 18 Absolute Thought, 138n–39n The Religious Aspect of Philosophy and, 9 absolutist metaphysics of Royce’s early philosophical career, 9–10 {  } absolutistic idealism, 137n abstract infinite, Parker, Theodore, 20 acting ethically, respecting other persons and, 80 activistic epistemology, 74 actual, use of word, 34 actuality, 34, 37 African Americans, racism against, 133 agape Brightman, Edgar S., 99–100 King, Martin Luther Jr., 5, 100 loyalty and, 104 Muelder, Walter G., 99–100 nonviolence and, 99 Royce and, 104 tough love, 43 will to interpret and, 104 agapic love eternal Ideal, 41 St. Paul and, 53–54 will to interpret and, 52, 105–6 agnosticism, solipsism and, 142n–43n All-Knower, 17 All-Servant, 55 Alter Ego, 20 Ansbro, John J., 102 appreciation, description and, 30 argument for existence of God, ‘‘The Conception of God,’’ 19 atheists’ loyalty to God, 143n attempt to solve problem of evil, ‘‘The Problem of Job’’ as, 31 autonomous selves, God as Absolute Experience and, 23–24  index Auxier, Randall E., 140n on Howison, George Holmes, 11 Modern Dictionary of American Philosophers , 86 Royce’s cessation of idealism, 12 awareness of dependence on other persons and non-personal beings to know ourselves and world, 19 being, use of word, real and, 35 beings minded and non-minded, 39 as ongoing temporal process, 39 Beloved Community, 1 actualization, 106 approximation of, 12 communal persons and, 69 divine allure of, 3 divine person and, 56 emergence of, our participation in, 65 God as ideal of, 74 King, Martin Luther Jr., 5, 101–3, 106, 155n–56n let life be guided by, 54 The Problem of Christianity, 104 universe as personal cosmos responding to, 78–79 will to interpret as real phenomenon, 53 will to interpret as spirit of, 52 Bergo, Bettina, 122 Berkeley Philosophical Union debate, 15 Bertocci, Peter A., 73 Beyond, sensitivity to, 21 Bobo, Lawrence, 133 Body of Christ, 2, 53 Boston personalism, 13 panentheistic personalism and, 77 philosophical viability, 77–78 Royce and, 73–74 Royce’s personalism and, 67–68 Bowne, Borden Parker, 70, 140n Brightman, Edgar S., 3, 73 consistency, 44 Law of the Ideal of Personality, 99 Moral Laws, 99, 159n–60n Burrow, Rufus Jr., 138n idealistic personalism and, 80 Royce’s idealism as personalistic absolutism , 71 chefs and knives, 58 City of God, 13 metaphysics of community and, 62–63 civility, struggle for, 48 Clendenning, John, 30, 140n communal persons, 57, 68–69 community all-servant and, 55 anticipation of future, 52 building, will to interpret and, 52 as communal person, 57 hope, 52 identity and, 56–57 loyalty and, 43–44 memory, 52 metaphysics of, Pauline Christianity and, 53 non-community, 52 Paul’s description of Body of Christ, 53 self-representative selves, Absolute and, 53 society, 52 spirit of Universal Community, 53 universe as, respect and, 78 Community of Interpretation, 18, 104 Interpreter Spirit, 12 community of interpreters, 20 concentric metaphysics, 37 conception of God, 63 criticism, Royce’s response to, 29 Kantian transcendental argumentation and, 89–90 philosophical, 90 Royce’s argument for, 16 concepts, as objects of knowledge, 89 conceptual present, 112 concrete experiences, 38 Cone, James, 101–2 consciousness, communal persons, 69 Cotton, James H., 137n index  creator, relationship between creator and creature, 145n creator of world, God as, 74 Critical Responses to Josiah Royce (Auxier ), 11–12 cult of the dead, 152n Darwinian evolutionary theory, 63 dead, cult of, 152n dependence on other selves, 61 description, appreciation and, 30 Dewey, John, 3, 78, 138n ‘‘Diachrony and Representation’’ (Levinas ), 126 Discourse on Metaphysics (Leibniz), 31 divine temporality, 154n totality of the Real and, 49 divine grace, communal persons and, 69 divine living self, 20 divine person, 55–56 divine will, 65 dualistic epistemology, 74 dualistic mind-object relation, 74 duty, 59–60 as members...