The Spirit of Modern Philosophy

by Josiah Royce

THE SPIRIT OF MODERN
PHILOSOPHY

An Essay

IN THE FORM OF LECTURES

BY

JOSIAH ROYCE

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY
IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Boston and New York

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1892

Contents

Preface

Lecture I: General Introdution

PART I. STUDIES OF THINKERS AND PROBLEMS.

Lecture II: The Periods of Modern Philosophy; Characteristics of the First Period; Illustration by Means of the Religious Aspect of Spinozism

Lecture III: The Rediscovery of the Inner Life; From Spinoza to Kant

Lecture IV: Kant

Lecture V: Fichte

Lecture VI: The Romantic School in Philosophy

Lecture VII: Hegel

Lecture VIII: Schopenhauer

Lecture IX: The Rise of the Doctrine of Evolution

PART II. SUGGESTIONS OF DOCTRINE.

Lecture X: Nature and Evolution; The Outer World and Its Paradox

Lecture XI: Reality and Idealism; The Inner World and Its Meaning

Lecture XII: Physical Law and Freedom; The World of Description and the World of Appreciation

Lecture XIII: Optimism, Pessimism and the Moral Order