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Josiah Royce

1855 - 1916

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Josiah Royce (; November 20, 1855 – September 14, 1916) was an American pragmatist and objective idealist philosopher and the founder of American idealism. His philosophical ideas included his joining of pragmatism and idealism, his philosophy of loyalty, and his defense of absolutism. Royce's essay "A Word for the Times" (1914) was quoted in the 1936 State of the Union Address by Franklin Delano Roosevelt: "The human race now passes through one of its great crises. New ideas, new issues – a new call for men to carry on the work of righteousness, of charity, of courage, of patience, and of loyalty. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Josiah Royce is the 1,081st most popular philosopher (down from 1,028th in 2019), the 6,379th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,059th in 2019) and the 54th most popular American Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Josiah Royce ranks 1,081 out of 1,267. Before him are Rambhadracharya, Mario Perniola, Martin Chemnitz, Carole Pateman, Immanuel Hermann Fichte, and Hirata Atsutane. After him are Helene von Druskowitz, Ivan Merz, Carlo Cattaneo, Luciano Floridi, Max Dessoir, and Georg Anton Friedrich Ast.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Josiah Royce ranks 77. Before him are Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin, Innokenty Annensky, Leo Deutsch, Otto Lehmann, Olive Schreiner, and Caroline Rémy de Guebhard. After him are Eduard von Keyserling, Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt, Emmanuel Drake del Castillo, Eugene V. Debs, Emil Paur, and Frank Hadow. Among people deceased in 1916, Josiah Royce ranks 115. Before him are Walter Sutton, George Huntington, Chen Qimei, Henri Harpignies, Rik Wouters, and Leo Anton Karl de Ball. After him are Oskar Gripenberg, Karl Klindworth, Maksim Kovalevsky, Alaiza Pashkevich, Germán Riesco, and Ștefan Luchian.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Josiah Royce ranks 6,380 out of 20,380. Before him are Brian G. Hutton (1935), Kevin Dunn (1956), Philip Arthur Fisher (1907), Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann (1933), Ransom E. Olds (1864), and Jason Beghe (1960). After him are Desi Arnaz Jr. (1953), Art Buchwald (1925), Francis George (1937), Judith Light (1949), Jane Greer (1924), and E. B. White (1899).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United States

Among philosophers born in United States, Josiah Royce ranks 54. Before him are Hubert Dreyfus (1929), Mary Whiton Calkins (1863), Susan George (1934), Amina Wadud (1952), Edmund Gettier (1927), and Mary Daly (1928). After him are William Lane Craig (1949), Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825), Allan Bloom (1930), Harry Frankfurt (1929), Amos Bronson Alcott (1799), and Patricia Hill Collins (1948).

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