Randall E. Auxier, Southern
Illinois University Carbondale
Interpreters of the philosophy
of Josiah Royce have been able to come to terms fairly well with his progressivism
and his relational theory of community—indeed, the subsequent literature
on his theory of community would fill a large bookshelf—but one thing
that continues to vex interpreters is, for lack of a better word, Royce's
"conservatism." The aim of this article is to provide an account
of his conservatism, to explain what it means and why he cannot be seen
as an heir to classical liberalism. Royce was a conservative.
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