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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Ep. 380: Josiah Royce on Community (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

More on The Problem of Christianity, discussing how communities relate to history, how individuals relate to communities, and what's unique about Royce's ideal Christian world community.

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0:00.0

Hey folks, I'm trying to teach my big books in Continental Philosophy class.

0:04.5

Again, for the spring, I need to know how many people are interested, and when,

0:08.8

please see partiallyexaminedlife.com slash class for details.

0:16.9

Hey, this is the Parsley Examine Life.

0:23.1

Episode 380.

0:24.3

We've been discussing Josiah Royce.

0:26.4

We had a wonderful guest for our first half.

0:28.5

She has fled.

0:29.6

So it's just Wes and Seth and I for the second half here.

0:33.0

And, Wes, you were about to read something.

0:35.2

We're still in lecture four of the Realm of Grace.

0:37.0

Is that right? Well, I was jumping ahead to community and time process just to kind of underline

0:42.0

some of the points you guys were making because you're referencing this. But we don't have to go there

0:47.3

because it's jumping ahead. I'm fine jumping ahead. I like getting, I mean, we've already

0:52.0

referred to this quite a lot because we're talking about what it is to be a member of a community.

0:57.8

And I think he really doesn't get down to the brass tax of what this is until these later lectures.

1:02.7

Yeah.

1:02.9

So he makes the point that, you know, this is around 36.

1:07.0

So section nine of lecture nine, community and time process.

1:11.5

He makes the point that if we look at any, you know, if we take a sort of time slice of a community, it won't look so organized, right?

1:20.2

So we'll say that we're likely to see the quote, predominantly pluralistic form of the various relatively independent doings of detached individuals or else the social form of

1:27.9

the confused activities of a crowd. And then he makes this distinction between crowds and communities.

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