ROYCE (Josiah).
The Hope of the Great Community.
A posthumously published collection of six essays on global politics and the Great War written during the final year of Royce’s life.
‘Josiah Royce (1855–1916) was the leading American proponent of absolute idealism, the metaphysical view (also maintained by Hegel and F.H. Bradley) that all aspects of reality, including those we experience as disconnected or contradictory, are ultimately unified in the thought of a single all-encompassing consciousness. Royce also made original contributions in ethics, philosophy of community, philosophy of religion and logic’ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).