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This 1892 collection contains thirteen essays divided into two parts: "Studies of Thinkers and Problems," which addresses such philosophers as Kant, Spinoza, Hegel, Fichte, and Schopenhauer, and "Suggestions of Doctrine," which explores such subjects as "Nature and Evolution," "Reality and Idealism," and "Optimism, Pessimism, and the Moral Order."
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This 1897 volume constitutes a rigorous debate between Royce and three other scholars: Professor Joseph Le Conte, Professor G. H. Howison, and Professor Sidney Edward Mezes. Royce's title essay is followed by criticisms from each professor. Royce then responds to his critics, defending his original thesis, which derives from his idealist philosophy.
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Published in 1912, this collection of seven essays sets out Royce's own religious views on such topics as "The Religious Problem and the Human Individual," "Individual and Social Experience as Sources of Religious Insight," "The World and the Will," and "The Religious Mission of Sorrow." The New York Times called it "vital and intelligible."
5) Immortality
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This essay represents Josiah Royce's 1899 Harvard Ingersoll Lecture on Human Immortality. Royce posits that reality consists of one unified aspect, the Absolute, which conditions all being. By situating humans within this infinite Absolute, a relation of individual existence to immortality emerges.
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