Metaphysics / Josiah Royce ; William Ernest Hocking, initial editor ; co-edited by Richard Hocking and Frank Oppenheim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Royce, Josiah, 1855-1916.

Contributor:

Hocking, William Ernest, 1873-1966.

Hocking, Richard, 1906-2001.

Oppenheim, Frank M., 1925-

Series:

SUNY series in philosophy.

SUNY series in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 346 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c1998.

Contents:

Foreword

Symbols and abbreviations

Highlights of Josiah Royce' intellectual development

Analytical table of chapters

PART I: "SOCIAL APPROACH" TO METAPHYSICS: Introduction: The "Social approach" to metaphysics

The social nature of knowledge: the theory of interpretation

The social theory of truth

PART II: THE "LOGICAL APPROACH" TO METAPHYSICS: Santayana on "is" ; his sharp distinction between essence and existence

The relational form of the ontological argument

Identity and identification

Mysticism

The third concept of being

The fourth concept of being

Midyear and final examinations in Phil. 9, Metaphysics, 1915-1916

SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAYS: Provenance of the Phil. 9 course and present text of Royce's Last lecturew on metaphysics, 1915-1916 / Frank Oppenheim

Excerpts from "The ontological argument in Royce and others" / William Ernest Hocking

RESOURCES: Notes

Critical apparatus

Comments interjected by the stenographer, Ralph W. Brown

Selected glossary of persons to whom Royce refers in his Phil. 9 course of 1915-1916

Index of persons

Index of topics.

Notes:

"His Philosophy 9 course of 1915-1916 as stenographically recorded by Ralph W. Brown and complemented by notes from Bryon F. Underwood."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-327) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-4384-1814-0

0-585-09167-6