The World and the Individual, First Series

by Josiah Royce

THE WORLD AND THE INDIVIDUAL

Gifford Lectures
Delivered before the University of Aberdeen

FIRST SERIES:
THE FOUR HISTORICAL CONCEPTIONS OF BEING

CONTENTS

Preface (vii-xiv)

Lecture I: Introduction: The Religious Problems and the Theory of Being (3-43)

Lecture II: Realism and Mysticism in the History of Thought (47-87)

Lecture III: The Independent Beings: A Critical Examination of Realism (91-138)

Lecture IV: The Unity of Being, and the Mystical Interpretation (141-182)

Lecture V: The Outcome of Mysticism, and the World of Modern Critical Rationalism (185-222)

Lecture VI: Validity and Experience (225-262)

Lecture VII: The Internal and External Meaning of Ideas (265-342)

Lecture VIII: The Fourth Conception of Being (345-382)

Lecture IX: Universality and Unity (385-427)

Lecture X: Individuality and Freedom (431-470)

Supplementary Essay: The One, the Many, and the Infinite (473-588)