The Josiah Royce Society
Nevada County
chapter
Presents
"Between
Heaven and Earth:
The
Progress of the Beloved Community."
A talk by
Professor Randall Auxier
Professor of
Philosophy at Southern Illinois University
The talk will be about the religious background
of Josiah Royce's family and how it affected his thought, specifically the
utopian ideas in the part of New York they came from before journeying to
California. These ideas will be explored and compared with John Bunyan’s
“Pilgrim's Progress” and formed the roots of the idea of beloved community in
Royce’s works.
Monday June 8th
2015 at 7:00 p.m.
at the Emmanuel
Episcopal Church
235 S. Church
Street, Grass Valley, CA
The
Josiah Royce Society was established in 2003 to encourage the study of the life
and work of the American philosopher Josiah Royce. He was born in Grass
Valley in 1855. He died in Cambridge, MA,
in 1916 after an illustrious career as Harvard professor and
international speaker.
“Our fellows are known to be
real and have their inner life, because they are for each of us, the endless
treasury of more ideas. They answer our questions, they tell us news,
they make comments, they pass judgments, they express novel combinations of
feelings and they relate to us stories, they argue with us, and take counsel
with us…Our fellows furnish us with the
constantly needed supplement to our own fragmentary meaning.”
JOSIAH ROYCE, The World and the Individual, II
(written
in 1899 and 1901)
For further information:
Robin Wallace--530/265-9397
Iven Lourie--530/277-5380
(cell)
