Sign up for Closereads at patreon.com/closereadsphilosophy to get previous and future installments of this podcast. On "The Problem of Christianity," vol. 2, lecture 12, ch. 9, "The Will to Interpret." The point is to help explain Royce's idea of a community of interpretation, and the idea is that in the very act of interpreting a single individual, I'm bringing in some Continue Reading …
Ep. 380: Josiah Royce on Community (Part Two)
Subscribe to get parts 1 and 2 of this now, ad-free, plus tons of bonus content, including a supporter-exclusive part three, coming soon. Continuing from part one on The Problem of Christianity (1913), talking about how communities refer to time-processes, both in the history of the development of that community (so a community can be much more ancient and wizened than an Continue Reading …
Ep. 380: Josiah Royce on Community (Part One)
Subscribe to get parts 1 and 2 of this now, ad-free, plus tons of bonus content. On sections of The Problem of Christianity (1913) which establish Royce's concept of a community of interpretation: individuals working together with a sense of shared history and expectation. He claims that such a grouping can be counted as a literal mind and that it solves the problem of Continue Reading …
Ep. 380: Josiah Royce on Community (Part Two for Supporters)
Continuing from part one on The Problem of Christianity (1913), talking about how communities refer to time-processes, both in the history of the development of that community (so a community can be much more ancient and wizened than an individual), and in the mythical history and looked-for future, such that the community, for instance, of Christians is defined by the death of Continue Reading …
Ep. 380: Josiah Royce on Community (Part One for Supporters)
On sections of The Problem of Christianity (1913) which establish Royce's concept of a community of interpretation: individuals working together with a sense of shared history and expectation. He claims that such a grouping can be counted as a literal mind and that it solves the problem of human meaning. Which of our many social groupings and political affiliations share these Continue Reading …