Yes, But Not Quite: Encountering Josiah Royce's Ethico-Religious Insight
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This book contends that Josiah Royce bequeathed to philosophy a novel idealism based on an ethico-religious insight. This insight became the basis for an idealistic personalism, wherein the Real is the personal and a metaphysics of community is the most appropriate approach to metaphysics for personal beings, especially in an often impersonal and technological intellectual climate.
The first part of the book traces how Royce constructed his idealistic personalism in response to criticisms made by George Holmes Howison. That personalism is interpreted as an ethical and panentheistic one, somewhat akin to Charles Hartshorne's process philosophy. The second part investigates Royce's idealistic metaphysics in general and his ethico-religious insight in particular. In the course of these investigations, the author examines how Royce's ethico-religious insight could be strengthened by incorporating the philosophical theology of Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and Emmanuel Levinas's ethical metaphysics. The author concludes by briefly exploring the possibility that Royce's progressive racial anti-essentialism is, in fact, a form of cultural, antiblack racism and asks whether his cultural, antiblack racism taints his ethico-religious insight.
Dwayne A. Tunstall
Dwayne A. Tunstall is professor of philosophy and associate dean of inclusive excellence and curriculum at Grand Valley State University. His areas of specialty are African American philosophy, classical American philosophy (especially Josiah Royce), and existentialism. His research interests include moral philosophy, phenomenology, philosophy of religion, and social and political philosophy. He is the author of two books: Yes, But Not Quite: Encountering Josiah Royce’s Ethico-Religious Insight (Fordham University Press, 2009) and Doing Philosophy Personally: Thinking about Metaphysics, Theism, and Antiblack Racism (Fordham University Press, 2013). He is also author of numerous articles and book chapters, including “Royce’s Ethical Insight and Inevitable Moral Failure,” in Joshua R. Farris and Benedikt Paul Göcke, eds., The Routledge Handbook on Idealism and Immaterialism (Routledge, 2021) and “The Spiritual Significance of Curry’s The Man-Not by Critic Tunstall,” in The Acorn (2018).
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